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| French writer |
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| Born in Grenoble, Isère, Stendhal had an unhappy childhood in what he found to be stifling provincial France, disliking his "unimaginative" father and mourning his mother, who had died when he was young. His closest friend was his younger sister, Pauline, with whom he maintained a steady ... |
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| French pop singer |
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Sheila started her musical career in 1962, after being noticed by Claude Carrère, a French music producer and songwriter. This collaboration lasted more than 20 years but ended in 1995 with a lawsuit in which she won a royalties battle against her former producer.
Sheila had ... |
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| Belgian and French nun |
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| Sœur Emmanuelle was born in Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of a family of lingerie manufacturers. At the age of six she saw her father drown. She was educated at the Sorbonne, earning a degree in philosophy. In 1929, she took her religious vows and became a nun in the Congregation of Notre-Dame de ... |
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| French soldier, diplomatist and writer of memoirs |
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| His father was a tall and taciturn man who was keen on hunting. Saint-Simon, was the opposite, garrulous, exceptionally short, and preferred to live indoors. His father had become a minor favourite of Louis XIII, who was addicted to hunting. Louis made him his Master of Wolfhounds and then gave him ... |
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| French novelist |
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| Sand's father, Maurice Dupin, was a distant relative of Louis XVI and grandson of the Marshal General of France, Maurice, Comte de Saxe, himself an illegitimate son of August the Strong, King of Poland and a Saxon elector. Sand's mother, Sophie-Victoire Delaborde, was a commoner. Sand was born in ... |
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