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Yvonne Printemps (born Yvonne Wigniolle; 25 July 1894 – 19 January 1977) was a French singer and actress who achieved stardom on stage and screen in France and internationally.
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Grégoire Aslan (born Krikor Kaloust Aslanian (Armenian: Գրիգոր Գալուստ Ասլանեան, Krigor Kalowst Aslanean); 28 March 1908 – 8 January 1982) was a Swiss-Armenian actor and musician.
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René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981) born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy ...
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art ...
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Anatole France (born François-Anatole Thibault, 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day ...
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as 'the painter for France'. He became the co-founder and president ...
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Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle (3 January 1893 – 15 March 1945) was a French writer of novels, short stories and political essays. He was born, lived and died in Paris. Drieu La Rochelle became a proponent ...
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Andre Dewavrin DSO, MC (9 June 1911, Paris – 21 December 1998) was a French officer who served with Free French Forces intelligence services during World War II.
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Lucien Hesse (10 April 1866 – November 1929) was a French architect. He designed synagogues and private residences, some of which are listed as official historical monuments by the French Ministry of Culture ...
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Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (French: Josef Hoëné-Wronski, 23 August 1776 – 9 August 1853) was a Polish Messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, and economist. He was born Hoene ...
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Louis Frédéric Wickham (28 February 1861, Paris – 14 October 1913, Mesnil-le-Roi) was a French physician and pathologist remembered for describing Wickham striae. He trained in medicine in Paris ...