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PARIS

Most Famous People Born in Paris, France

Notable people
19,561
Peak decade
1950s
Median birth year
1888
Most distinctive
Playwright 7.0×

Paris is the salon and the studio. Notable births stretch unbroken from the late Renaissance through the Belle Époque to the Nouvelle Vague, and whole subgenres of fame — the chansonnier, the salonnière, the ébéniste, the gallerist — exist here at densities found almost nowhere else. Painters, playwrights, sculptors, and architects crowd every century since 1600, and each era seems to leave its own profession on the books before the next one arrives.

Standouts

What Paris Is Known For

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Politician is Paris's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (1,799).

Paris over-indexes on playwright 7.0× the global rate.

Paris under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Politician 1,799 0.8×
  2. Actor 1,636 1.6×
  3. Painter 1,632 3.2×
  4. Writer 1,043 1.6×
  5. Journalist 490 1.6×
  6. Architect 470 2.7×
  7. Film 463 1.9×
  8. Composer 451 1.8×
  1. Playwright 212 7.0×
  2. Sculptor 408 3.2×
  3. Painter 1,632 3.2×
  4. Architect 470 2.7×
  5. Photographer 207 2.2×
  6. Film 463 1.9×
  7. Composer 451 1.8×
  8. Diplomat 197 1.7×
  1. Football 445 0.2×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Paris's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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0028 ACTOR

Catherine Deneuve

Born 1943

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0117 PHILOSOPHER

Alain Finkielkraut

Born 1949

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0138 ACTOR

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Born 1944

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0140 ACTOR

Jacques Dutronc

Born 1943

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0150 ARCHITECT

Philippe Starck

Born 1949

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0169 PAINTER

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Born 1946

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0181 WRITER

Régis Debray

Born 1940

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0216 ACTOR

Patrice Leconte

Born 1947

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0228 WRITER

Érik Orsenna

Born 1947

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0231 ACTOR

Pierre Arditi

Born 1944

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0236 ACTOR

Claire Denis

Born 1946

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0265 ACTOR

Claudine Auger

1941 - 2019

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0274 ACTOR

Marie-Christine Barrault

Born 1944

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0282 CHEMIST

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Born 1944

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0290 ACTOR

Hervé Villechaize

1943 - 1993

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0292 ACTOR

Claudine Longet

Born 1942

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0307 BIOLOGIST

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Born 1947

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0313 AUTHOR

Christian Jacq

Born 1947

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0339 PAINTER

Christian Boltanski

Born 1944

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0345 HISTORIAN

Élisabeth Roudinesco

Born 1944

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0366 WRITER

Pascal Bruckner

Born 1948

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0429 SINGER

Laurent Voulzy

Born 1948

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0449 ACTOR

Pierre Clémenti

1942 - 1999

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0453 NOVELIST

Philippe Djian

Born 1949

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0464 ACTOR

Gérard Darmon

Born 1948

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0470 CARDINAL

André Vingt-Trois

Born 1942

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0487 ACTOR

Féodor Atkine

Born 1948

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0507 FILM

Benoît Jacquot

Born 1947

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0512 FILM

Jacques Doillon

Born 1944

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0524 ACTOR

Jacques Weber

Born 1949

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0535 PHILOSOPHER

Rémi Brague

Born 1947

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0564 ACTOR

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Born 1946

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0572 ACTOR

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

1949 - 2010

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0583 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Pierre-André Taguieff

Born 1946

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0584 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Philippe Descola

Born 1949

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0596 ACTOR

Coline Serreau

Born 1947

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0617 SOCIOLOGIST

Luc Boltanski

Born 1940

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0637 SINGER

Jacqueline Boyer

Born 1941

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0643 FILM

Jean-Marie Poiré

Born 1945

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0644 ACTOR

Geneviève Grad

Born 1944

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0656 SINGER

Pierre Bachelet

1944 - 2005

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0685 SPORT

Jacques Laffite

Born 1943

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0711 SINGER

Hervé Vilard

Born 1946

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0729 POLITICIAN

Bruno Mégret

Born 1949

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0741 SINGER

Maxime Le Forestier

Born 1949

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0747 ESSAYIST

Jean Clair

Born 1940

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0753 POLITICIAN

Alain Madelin

Born 1946

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0755 PRIEST

Fernando Ocáriz Braña

Born 1944

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0804 ASTROPHYSICIST

André Brahic

1942 - 2016

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0834 ECONOMIST

Alain Minc

Born 1949

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0853 SINGER

Alain Chamfort

Born 1949

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0877 WRITER

Yann Queffélec

Born 1949

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0894 WRITER

Patrick Rambaud

Born 1946

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0896 ACTOR

Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Born 1947

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0917 FILM

Jonathan Kaplan

Born 1947

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0920 SINGER

Séverine (singer)

Born 1948

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0925 HERALDIST

Michel Pastoureau

Born 1947

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0939 PAINTER

François Bourgeon

Born 1945

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0968 SOCIOLOGIST

Michel Wieviorka

Born 1946

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0982 WRITER

Pascal Bonitzer

Born 1946

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1044 SKATER

Alain Calmat

Born 1940

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1077 FILM

Jean-Daniel Cadinot

1944 - 2008

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1088 ACTOR

Martine Brochard

Born 1946

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1090 ACTOR

Éva Darlan

Born 1948

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1117 FILM

Gérard Pirès

Born 1942

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1128 ACTOR

Valérie Lagrange

Born 1942

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1134 RADIO

Julien Lepers

Born 1949

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1160 PHILOSOPHER

Chantal Delsol

Born 1947

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1178 CRITIC

Serge Daney

1944 - 1992

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1184 ACTOR

Maurice Risch

Born 1943

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1205 ACTOR

Carlos (singer)

1943 - 2008

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1221 DRIVER

Henri Pescarolo

Born 1942

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1268 WRITER

Philippe Grimbert

Born 1948

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1291 PLAYWRIGHT

François-Marie Banier

Born 1947

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1303 ACTOR

Christine Delaroche

Born 1944

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1332 BACKSTROKE

Kiki Caron

Born 1948

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1360 COMPOSER

Didier Malherbe

Born 1943

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1367 ACTOR

François Marthouret

Born 1943

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1380 POLITICIAN

Jean-Paul Huchon

Born 1946

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1384 MATHEMATICIAN

Ivar Ekeland

Born 1944

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1430 PHILOSOPHER

Geneviève Fraisse

Born 1948

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1457 ACADEMIC

Roger-Pol Droit

Born 1949

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1459 FILM

Philippe Mora

Born 1949

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1466 DEMOGRAPHER

Hervé Le Bras

Born 1943

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1469 MATHEMATICIAN

Nicole El Karoui

Born 1944

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1474 PAINTER

Gérard Garouste

Born 1946

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1483 ASTRONAUT

Jean-Pierre Haigneré

Born 1948

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1489 BUSINESS

Robert Louis-Dreyfus

1946 - 2009

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1495 PHILOSOPHER

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Born 1941

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1503 CONDUCTOR

Augustin Dumay

Born 1949

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1515 PIANIST

Anne Queffélec

Born 1948

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1520 ECONOMIST

Thierry de Montbrial

Born 1943

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1544 SCREENWRITER

Daniel Russo

Born 1948

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1547 HISTORIAN

Annette Wieviorka

Born 1948

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1554 ACTOR

Caroline Lagerfelt

Born 1947

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1595 WRITER

Jean-Christophe Bailly

Born 1949

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1659 COMIC

André Juillard

Born 1948

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1673 ARTIST

Jean-Claude Fournier

Born 1943

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1678 CINEMA

Pierre-William Glenn

Born 1943

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1683 MUSIC

Pierre Amoyal

Born 1949

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1703 PHYSICIST

Catherine Bréchignac

Born 1946

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1716 PIANIST

Michaël Lévinas

Born 1949

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1743 FILM

Richard Dembo

1948 - 2004

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1745 WRITER

Dominique Manotti

Born 1942

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1751 JOURNALIST

Pierre Lescure

Born 1945

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1772 MUSIC

Jacques Morali

1947 - 1991

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1780 FILM

Bruno Monsaingeon

Born 1943

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1784 POLITICIAN

Alain Richard

Born 1945

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1789 DRIVER

Patrick Tambay

Born 1949

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1793 ACTOR

Seda Aznavour

Born 1947

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1794 COMPOSER

Henri Texier

Born 1945

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1796 BIOLOGIST

Daniel Pauly

Born 1946

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1800 FASHION DESIGNER

Claude Montana

Born 1947

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1802 ARTIST

Caza

Born 1941

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1813 PHILOSOPHER

Philippe Nemo

Born 1949

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1815 CORRESPONDENT

Charles Enderlin

Born 1945

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1820 CONDUCTOR

Alain Lombard

Born 1940

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1832 PIANIST

Eddy Louiss

1941 - 2015

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1856 ART HISTORIAN

Jean-Louis Cohen

Born 1949

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1864 BIOLOGIST

Philippe Sansonetti

Born 1949

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1878 CONDUCTOR

Yan Pascal Tortelier

Born 1947

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1891 DRIVER

Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Born 1942

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1952 SINGER

Noëlle Cordier

Born 1944

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1959 PHILOSOPHER

Jean-Claude Milner

Born 1941

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2029 ACTOR

Xavier Gélin

1946 - 1999

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2078 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jean Ichbiah

1940 - 2007

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2105 ACTOR

Minou Drouet

Born 1947

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2109 POLITICIAN

Nelly Olin

1941 - 2017

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2120 JOURNALIST

Patrick Buisson

Born 1949

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2137 PHOTOGRAPHER

Patrick Chauvel

Born 1949

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2144 SCIENTIST

Alain Pompidou

Born 1942

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2169 ACTOR

François Dunoyer

Born 1946

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2184 SOCIOLOGIST

Alain Caillé

Born 1944

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2244 ACTOR

Didier Sandre

Born 1946

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2245 ACTOR

Élisabeth Wiener

Born 1946

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2254 ACTOR

Sophie Hardy

Born 1944

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2271 ESSAYIST

Jaime Semprún

1947 - 2010

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2296 SINGER

Richard Gotainer

Born 1948

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2298 WRITER

Élisabeth Vonarburg

Born 1947

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2303 ARTIST

Pierre Bernard (graphic designer)

1942 - 2015

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2328 SINGER

Jean-Jacques Debout

Born 1940

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2338 WRITER

Claudine Monteil

Born 1949

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2370 CINEMA

Robert Fraisse (cinematographer)

Born 1940

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2373 WRITER

Jack-Alain Léger

1947 - 2013

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2412 FILM

Michel Seydoux

Born 1947

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2424 POLITICIAN

Gérard d'Aboville

Born 1945

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2428 WRITER

Christian Oster

Born 1949

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2455 FILM

Jean-Pierre Gorin

Born 1943

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2464 POLITICIAN

Hervé Novelli

Born 1949

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2468 CEO

Gérard Mestrallet

Born 1949

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2469 ACTOR

Michèle Moretti

Born 1940

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2478 ACTOR

Silvia Solar

1940 - 2011

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2514 ACTOR

Chantal Neuwirth

Born 1948

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2547 BUSINESS

Michel Pébereau

Born 1942

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2556 CINEMA

Denis Lenoir

Born 1949

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2578 MUSIC

Daniel Vangarde

Born 1947

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2619 SON

Paul-Philippe Hohenzollern

Born 1948

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2642 ECONOMIST

François Bourguignon

Born 1945

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2658 POLITICIAN

Yiannos Papantoniou

Born 1949

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2662 ACTOR

Yves Pignot

Born 1946

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2677 PHOTOGRAPHER

Dominique Issermann

Born 1947

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2679 POLITICIAN

Alain Marleix

Born 1946

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2700 PRIEST

Éric Aumonier (bishop)

Born 1946

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2705 PHOTOGRAPHER

Alain Fleischer

Born 1944

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2706 PRIEST

Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont

Born 1945

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2716 ACTOR

Alain Noury

Born 1945

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2722 COMICS

Jean-Pierre Dionnet

Born 1947

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2766 WRITER

Hervé Fischer

Born 1941

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2772 SINGER

Hervé Cristiani

1947 - 2014

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2774 WRITER

Chantal Chawaf

Born 1943

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2805 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jacques Stern

Born 1949

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2811 WRITER

Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud

Born 1947

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2815 WRITER

Christian Grenier

Born 1945

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2829 ASTRONOMER

Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie

Born 1943

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2830 SINGER

William Sheller

Born 1946

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2835 ACTOR

Dominique Labourier

Born 1943

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2858 FILM

Jean-Michel Ribes

Born 1946

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2861 CINEMA

Patrick Blossier

Born 1949

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2898 CINEMA

Gérard de Battista

Born 1946

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2908 ACTOR

Stone (singer)

Born 1947

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2909 SINGER

Minouche Barelli

1947 - 2004

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2924 SINGER

Georgie Dann

Born 1940

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2929 LAWYER

Alain Pellet

Born 1947

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2932 FILM

Francis Leroi

1942 - 2002

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2935 WRITER

Françoise Dorner

Born 1949

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2949 WRITER

Patrick Lapeyre

Born 1949

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2973 SOCIOLOGIST

Danièle Hervieu-Léger

Born 1947

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2992 OCEANOGRAPHER

Jacques Rougerie (architect)

Born 1945

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2995 PHOTOJOURNALIST

Françoise Demulder

1947 - 2008

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3007 POLITICIAN

Georgina Dufoix

Born 1942

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3012 COMICS

Patrick Cothias

Born 1948

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3022 PSYCHIATRIST

Christophe Dejours

Born 1949

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3029 CHEMIST

Olivier Kahn

1942 - 1999

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3033 DIPLOMAT

Pierre de Boissieu

Born 1945

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3101 WRITER

Christian Gailly

1943 - 2013

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3111 BAKER

Lionel Poilâne

1945 - 2002

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3133 PAINTER

Béatrice Casadesus

Born 1942

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3141 FILM

José Pinheiro (director)

Born 1945

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3157 FILM

Pierre Spengler

Born 1947

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3180 POLITICIAN

Marie-Guite Dufay

Born 1949

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3247 FILM

Marcel Łoziński

Born 1940

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3260 PHYSICIST

Blas Cabrera

Born 1946

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3280 ACTOR

Didier Kaminka

Born 1943

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3281 DESIGNER

Jacques Garcia

Born 1947

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3291 FILM

Albina du Boisrouvray

Born 1941

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3295 SCULPTOR

Alain Kirili

Born 1946

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3300 SCREENWRITER

Andy Heyward

Born 1949

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3317 ACTOR

Alain Doutey

Born 1944

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3345 LITHOGRAPHER

Michèle Battut

Born 1946

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3348 FILM

Édouard Niermans (director)

Born 1943

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3388 SINGER

Gérard Blanc

1947 - 2009

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3411 WRITER

Margot Anand

Born 1944

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3426 FILM

Guy Le Querrec

Born 1941

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3480 COMPOSER

Jean-Pierre Bourtayre

Born 1942

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3483 SINGER

Nicolas Peyrac

Born 1949

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3491 SINGER

Aurora Lacasa

Born 1947

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3511 PAINTER

Francine Van Hove

Born 1942

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3514 POLITICIAN

Jacqueline Fraysse

Born 1947

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3527 PIANIST

François-Joël Thiollier

Born 1943

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3541 WRITER

Jean Robin (writer)

Born 1946

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3545 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Gilles Kahn

1946 - 2006

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3575 ARTIST

Georges Rousse

Born 1947

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3584 PIANIST

Jean-Jacques Kravetz

Born 1947

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3613 PROFESSOR

Guy Stroumsa

Born 1948

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3624 SCREENWRITER

Jean-Bernard Pouy

Born 1946

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3641 ACTOR

Caroline Silhol

Born 1949

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3653 THEATRE

Maria Björnson

1949 - 2002

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3654 SCREENWRITER

Arlette Langmann

Born 1946

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3657 SINGER

Lucky Blondo

Born 1944

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3660 CONDUCTOR

Alain Louvier

Born 1945

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3672 JOURNALIST

Daniel Bilalian

Born 1947

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3687 SCENOGRAPHER

Patrick Bouchain

Born 1945

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3714 ACTOR

Guy Montagné

Born 1948

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3715 ACTOR

Georges Beller

Born 1946

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3716 POET

Gérard Macé

Born 1946

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3728 SCREENWRITER

Daniel Biasini

Born 1949

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3746 ARTIST

Tania Mouraud

Born 1942

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3754 ACADEMIC

Pierre-Marie Dupuy

Born 1946

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3762 LYRICIST

Claude Lemesle

Born 1945

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3790 GEOGRAPHER

Jean-Robert Pitte

Born 1949

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3825 LINGUIST

Jean-Marie Floch

1947 - 2001

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3828 HISTORIAN

Gilles Veinstein

1945 - 2013

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3844 CONVICT

Catherine Share

Born 1942

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3855 CINEMA

Jean-Michel Carré

Born 1948

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3876 FILM

Jean-François Davy

Born 1945

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3884 COMPOSER

Pierre-Yves Artaud

Born 1946

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3904 NEWS PRESENTER

Gérard Holtz

Born 1946

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3909 ACTOR

Christian Sinniger

Born 1947

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3950 PHILOSOPHER

Gérard Rabinovitch

Born 1948

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3960 POLITICIAN

Gilles Carrez

Born 1948

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3963 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Alain Schnapp

Born 1946

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3980 FILM

Gérard Kikoïne

Born 1946

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3984 VIOLIN

Patrice Fontanarosa

Born 1942

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3996 PROFESSOR

Jean-Pol Martin

Born 1943

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4011 COMPOSER

Michel Bernholc

1941 - 2002

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4024 SCENOGRAPHER

Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko

Born 1946

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4032 JUDO

Patrick Vial

Born 1946

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4034 WRITER

Jérôme Clément

Born 1945

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4046 ARTIST

Gilles Chaillet

1946 - 2011

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4047 SCHOLAR

Anne-Marie Pelletier

Born 1946

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4078 HISTORIAN

Jean-Pierre Mahé

Born 1944

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4086 ROI

Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro

Born 1944

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4091 ACTOR

Pascal Aubier

Born 1943

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4126 AUTHOR

Jacky Dreksler

Born 1946

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4145 RADIO

Jean-François Bizot

1944 - 2007

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4155 NOVELIST

Catherine David (writer)

Born 1949

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4159 EDITOR

Antoine Gallimard

Born 1947

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4176 LITERARY

Michel Delon

Born 1947

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4210 POLITICIAN

Caroline Cayeux

Born 1948

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4237 GOLF

Catherine Lacoste

Born 1945

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4249 SINOLOGIST

Marianne Bastid-Bruguière

Born 1940

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4250 ENGINEER

Alain Glavieux

1949 - 2004

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4281 FILM

André Weinfeld

Born 1947

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4319 BUSINESS

Thierry Desmarest

Born 1945

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4338 ESSAYIST

Pierre Rigoulot

Born 1944

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4364 PRIEST

Jean Marie Henri Legrez

Born 1948

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4366 SINGER

Daniel Guichard

Born 1948

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4389 PRESENTER

Jacky (TV presenter)

Born 1948

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4409 POLITICIAN

Yves Galland

Born 1941

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4444 MARKETING

Clotaire Rapaille

Born 1941

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4473 JOURNALIST

Patrice de Plunkett

Born 1947

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4478 FILM

Jacques Lourcelles

Born 1940

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4489 AUTHOR

Jonathan Keates

Born 1946

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4492 POLITICIAN

Michel Françaix

Born 1943

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4513 BUSINESS

Jean-Louis Gergorin

Born 1946

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4523 WRITER

Alain Jaubert

Born 1940

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4527 CHOREOGRAPHER

Patrice Bart

Born 1945

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4564 SCREENWRITER

Florence Quentin

Born 1946

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4566 ECONOMIST

Yves Balasko

Born 1945

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4578 ACTOR

Maxence Mailfort

Born 1949

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4579 HISTORIAN

Claude Gauvard

Born 1942

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4597 WRITER

Francis Berthelot

Born 1946

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4598 BUSINESS

Jean-Louis Gassée

Born 1944

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4602 MATHEMATICIAN

Jean-Michel Bony

Born 1942

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4631 PLAYER

Jean-Claude Barclay

Born 1942

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4632 HISTORIAN

Jean-Paul Bled

Born 1942

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4648 CINEMA

François Catonné

Born 1944

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4677 POLITICIAN

Catherine Génisson

Born 1949

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4703 POLITICIAN

Jacques Kossowski

Born 1940

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4715 COMICS

Xavier Fauche

Born 1946

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