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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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Born 1947-08-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
Frédéric Mitterrand was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, and politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Born 1928-03-30. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Robert Badinter was a French lawyer, politician, and author who enacted the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981, while serving as Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand. He also served in high-level appointed positions with national and international bodies working for justice and the rule of law.
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Born 1931-07-06. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Louis Mexandeau was a French politician. He served as Minister of the Postal Services from 1981 to 1986 under François Mitterrand, and as Secretary for Veteran Affairs from 1991 to 1993.
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Born 1925-11-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Michel Bouquet was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.
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Born 1934-06-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French scriptwriter, stand-up comedian and actor (mostly known for his part in the film Nous irons tous au paradis). He identified with the ethnic group Pied-Noir, descending from Algeria. At Music-Hall, he interpreted various sketches of authors alike him. He developed a regularly updated political satire. This satire affected mostly right-wing politicians, his "friends" of the left also suffer from his cutting reflections. He was also famous for his left-wing political affiliation and he had supported politicians such as François Mitterrand. In order for him to fulfill his military service during the Algerian war, he went on a hunger strike and succeeded in being reformed for mental illness.
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Born 1933-05-02. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Hervé Bourges was a French journalist and audiovisual executive. He became the director of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille in 1976. He directed the likes of Radio France internationale, TF1, and Radio Monte Carlo. It was under his leadership that Antenne 2 and FR3 were renamed as France 2 and France 3, thus forming the group France Télévisions. He was appointed Ambassador of France to UNESCO in 1993. In 1995, François Mitterrand appointed him Director of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, and in 2001 led the International Francophone Press Union.
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Born 1935-11-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Georges Sarre was a French politician and leader of the Citizen and Republican Movement. Sarre was an early supporter of Jean-Pierre Chevènement and François Mitterrand within the new Socialist Party (PS), which he joined at the famous Epinay Congress in 1971. He was the Socialist top candidate in the 1977 Paris municipal election but lost the election by a handful of votes to Jacques Chirac.
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Born 1942-10-04. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer
Alain Devaquet was a French politician who was a minister under Jacques Chirac. A university professor before embarking on his political career with the Rally for the Republic, Devaquet was given the role of junior minister for universities. In this role he became the public face of a controversial proposal to reform the higher education system in 1986, the proposals becoming known as the Devaquet Law, despite originating from more senior members of the government. The plan allowed universities to be more selective in the admission of students and to charge fees. The reaction against the proposals was strong, with mass protests by students and some strikes in support of their opposition. With the mobilisation of students also closely linked to other proposals aimed at tightening immigration laws, things came to a head with the death of Malik Oussekine, a student protester who died in police custody on 6 December 1986 and whose death prompted mass outpouring of anger. The law was withdrawn two days later and Devaquet was forced to resign, although the incident proved a strong blow to the government and enhanced the profile of François Mitterrand due to his opposition.
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Born 1930-08-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI), a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and achieved the Matignon Accords regarding the status of New Caledonia. He was a member of the European Parliament, and was strongly involved in European policies until 2009. In 2007, he joined a Commission under the authority of Nicolas Sarkozy's Minister of Education, Xavier Darcos. In June 2007, Rocard was admitted to the Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata, India where doctors found he had a blood clot in the brain and was operated upon. He was discharged from the hospital on 10 July 2007. On 30 March 2012, Rocard was on a visit to Stockholm, Sweden to attend a meeting regarding the Arctic Council. During a break at noon, he became ill and was taken to the Karolinska University Hospital. Doctors decided later that day that Rocard should spend the night at the hospital's intensive-care medicine unit for observation. Rocard died in Paris, at the age of 85.
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Born 1920-01-31. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Benoîte Groult was married three times. In 1944, she married medical student Pierre Heuyer, who died soon afterward of tuberculosis. In 1951, she married journalist Georges de Caunes with whom she had two daughters, Blandine and Lison. She later married the writer Paul Guimard (1921–2004). The couple had one daughter, Constance. Benoîte Groult had a holiday home in Derrynane (Republic of Ireland) and spent the summer there from 1977 till 2003. The French president François Mitterrand visited her there in 1988.
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Born 1928-08-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Socialist politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001.
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Born 1924-10-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Born Danielle Émilienne Isabelle Gouze, she was the widow of French President François Mitterrand, and was president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand.
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Born 1918-05-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
The last surviving brother of President Miterrand.
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Born 1935-06-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
Fond of travelling in the United States, she was often seen with Truman Capote. She was once involved in a car accident with her Aston Martin, which left her in a coma for some time.
In the 1990s Sagan was convicted for using cocaine.
Her health was reported to be poor in the decade of the 2000s. In 2002 she was unable to appear at a trial in which she was convicted of tax fraud involving François Mitterrand, and she received a suspended sentence.
Françoise Sagan died of a blood clot in a lung in Honfleur, Calvados at the age of 69.
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Born 1920-12-01. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Poujadism flourished most vigorously in the last years of the French Fourth Republic, and articulated the economic interests and grievances of shopkeepers and other proprietor-managers of small businesses facing economic and social change. The movement's ideological issues were: lower taxes, corporatism, and the denouncing of politicians and media; later, the movement grew increasingly nationalist, antisemitic, xenophobic, and critical of parliamentary institutions.
The political arm of the movement was the UDCA, which secured 53 seats in the National Assembly in 1956. The youngest member of parliament, elected on an UDCA list, was Jean-Marie Le Pen. However Poujade later distanced himself from Le Pen; and after the French Fifth Republic began in 1958 under Charles de Gaulle's presidency, Poujade and his party largely faded from view. In the 1981 and 1988 presidential elections he favoured François Mitterrand, while in the 1995 election he voiced his support for Jacques Chirac.
The word poujadisme now has in France the general meaning of some political ideology that articulates the worries of some part of the population facing social or economic change, and that blame the problems on the "establishment" and the political system. Examples of political groups with strong poujadist leanings include Le Pen's own National Front. Others, such as the Third Way, have also claimed to be heirs of the poujadist tradition.
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Born 1915-09-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Polytechnician. François Mitterrand's brother.
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Born 1923-08-09. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Other
Had an affair with F. Mitterrand.
Multiple sclerosis.
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Born 1913-08-21. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Foccart was an initiator of what would become known as the Françafrique, a term borrowed from Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president of Côte d'Ivoire, by François-Xavier Verschave. This expression would survive until François Mitterrand's 1981 election and the first socialist government of the Fifth Republic (founded in 1958), in particular with Mitterrand's son, Jean-Christophe, nicknamed "Papamadi" ("Papa-told-me").
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Born 1916-10-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
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Born 1918-03-29. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
Grossouvre allegedly committed suicide, although some, such as Captain Paul Barril, claimed that he had been murdered. He was discovered dead, two bullets in his head, in his office at the Elysée — several hours after the assassination of Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana. Barril, who worked in Rwanda, presented himself in his book Guerres secrètes à l’Élysée (Secret Wars in the Elysée) as an "intime" of Grossouvre. The "hurt friend" of Mitterrand according to Le Monde, Grossouvre voluntarily gave evidence to a judge investigating the case of Roger-Patrice Pelat, a businessman who reportedly financed many of Mitterrand's political campaigns and who was facing charges of insider trading when he died of natural causes in 1989.
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Born 1907-10-12. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a candidate in the 1965 french presidential election when his campaign manager was Jean-Marie Le Pen. He won 1,260,208 votes, which was 5.2% of the total, giving him fourth place after De Gaulle, Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet. In the second round, he supported François Mitterrand.
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Born 1912-05-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Fernand Pouillon was a French architect, urban planner, building contractor and writer. Pouillon was one of the most active and influential post-World War II architects and builders in France. He is remembered for his use of ‘noble’ building materials (especially stone), his seamless integration of all phases of the building process, his inexpensive and efficient building techniques and for his harmonious juxtaposition of forms. He was a humanist, as well as an architect. His stated goal was to meet human needs, and especially, those of middle-class and poorer families who faced severe shortages of dignified housing in the post-War period. Due to his success, ostentation and his imperious personality, he attracted the jealousy and ill-will of many. His was a tumultuous life, including prison time and a prison escape. Some architectural critics say he will be remembered as one of the great French architects of the 20th century. By the 1970s, influential people in France were having second thoughts about the treatment accorded to Pouillon: In 1971, he was pardoned by the French President Georges Pompidou. In 1978, he was reintegrated into the French Order of Architects. Pouillon returned definitively to France in 1984. In April 1984, he was named an Officer of the Légion d’Honour (the French Order of Merit), an honour conferred in person by the French President François Mitterrand. He spent the last years of his life at Château de Belcastel, a medieval castle in the Aveyron department, which he had restored together with Algerian craftsmen. He died in the Château de Belcastel. It is said that he had requested that his final resting place not show his name.
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Born 1911-09-07. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
On December 6, 1931, De France founded the Compagnie Générale de Télévision in Le Havre, making television sets with a vertical definition of 60 lines. In February 1932, De France made several transmissions over a distance of 7km from the "Radio-Normandie" station in Fécamp. These signals were received by a few people located at over 100km away. In October 1932, he achieved a definition of 120 lines. In 1956 he patented the SECAM color television system. On October 1, 1967 at 2:15pm CET, la deuxième chaîne switched from black and white to color using SECAM.
De France is interred at Jarnac, the same town where former president François Mitterrand is buried.
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Born 1905-04-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
The son of a cobbler, Rochet was named in honor of the anti-clerical politician Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau.
Favorable to left-wing cooperation, Rochet directed the PCF votes towards François Mitterrand in the presidential elections of 1965. The problem he faced as general secretary was the balance between a needed rejuvenation of the PCF structure and maintaining an orthodox Marxist-Leninist ideology. In consequence, he publicly stated his disregard for the leftist movement of May 1968, while later in the same year he had to deal with the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring (when he tended to be favorable to the latter). The considerable stress of dealing with the latter event took a great toll on Rochet's nervous health.
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Born 1915-11-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
On 25 February 1980, after leaving a lunch party held by François Mitterrand, Barthes was struck by a laundry truck while walking home through the streets of Paris. He succumbed to his injuries a month later.
Roland Barthes aimait raconter cette petite blague à ses étudiants : un infirme se plonge dans l’eau de Lourdes pour que sa situation s’améliore et en ressort avec une chaise roulante toute neuve. Passé maître dans les discours aux multiples sens, qu’il s’amusera à démystifier, Barthes accouche en 1968 de cet article bizarre qu’est « La mort de l’auteur ».