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July 09, 2025

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Garreaud Jean-François (b. 1946-04-01 / d. 2020-07-09)

Jean-François Garreaud was a French actor. His best-known role is that of Jean Dabin in Violette Nozière, released in 1978. Garreaud married actress Virginie Ogouz, with whom he had two children. He died in Saint-Jory-de-Chalais on 9 July 2020 at the age of 74.

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Resnais
Alain. 2014-03-01

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Born 1922-06-03. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French film director whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. In 1969 Resnais married Florence Malraux (daughter of the French statesman and writer André Malraux); she was a regular member of his production team, working as assistant director on most of his films from 1961 to 1986. His second wife was Sabine Azéma, who acted in the majority of his films from 1983 onwards; they were married in the English town of Scarborough in 1998.

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Debré
Michel. 1996-08-02

84

Born 1912-01-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Other

Parkinson disease.
1st seat at académie française. succesor of Louis de Broglie.
L'humoriste Coluche a raillé dans son sketch L'Ancien Combattant (1975) l'image un rien austère de l'ancien Premier ministre, en l'imaginant en boute-en-train lors des banquets des commémoration militaires : « T'entends un bouchon qui saute : c'est Debrééé ! Y en a un qui s'endort pendant le discours de Malraux : c'est Debrééé ! Y en a un qui s'met un entonnoir pour faire rigoler les copains, dites-le avec moi : [avec le public] C'est Debréééé ! Alors, j'invente rien, tout le monde le dit… »

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Malraux
André. 1976-11-23

75

Born 1901-11-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other

Pulmonary edema. He was a heavy smoker.

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Jeanneret
Charles-Edouard (alias: Le Corbusier). 1965-08-27

78

Born 1887-10-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Heart attack

He was a Swiss-born architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture.
Against his doctor's orders, Le Corbusier went for a swim in the Mediterranean Sea at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. His body was found by bathers and he was pronounced dead at 11 a.m. It was assumed that he suffered a heart attack, at the age of seventy-eight. His death rites took place at the courtyard of the Louvre Palace on September 1, 1965 under the direction of writer and thinker André Malraux, who was at the time France's Minister of Culture.

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Drieu La Rochelle
Pierre. 1945-03-15

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Born 1893-01-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide

At the liberation of Paris in 1944, Drieu had to go into hiding. Despite the protection of André Malraux, and after a failed first attempt in July 1944, he committed suicide by poisoning himself with medicaments. He recounted that he first tried to commit suicide at 7. Suicide had been a constant temptation throughout his adult life. Like Robert Brasillach, his death caused him to be revered as a martyr by neo-fascists and others who shared his deep dissatisfaction with bourgeois society.

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