France – Page 3

13Apr

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Maurice Barrier, actor & singer

Maurice Barrier– was a French actor and singer – died on 12 April 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. He was 87. Barrier was the son of a cabinetmaker, and had his first job working in his father's workshop. While in Rennes at age 28, he met several resident actors at the Théâtre National de Bretagne and made his stage debut in Caligula, written by Albert Camus. His first major role on television was in the film The Taking of Power by Louis XIV. His other major films included The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Two Men in Town, Black and White in Color, Coup de tête, and Flic Story. He played alongside several actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, and G&eac...

12Apr

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Gillian Wise, artist

Gillian Wise - an English artist devoted to the application of concepts of rationality and aesthetic order to abstract paintings and reliefs – died on 11 April 2020 of COVID-19 while living in the Paris care home to which she had moved following the deterioration of her health in 2018. Between 1972 and 1990 she was known as Gillian Wise Ciobotaru. Wise was born at Ilford in London to Arthur, a timber merchant, and Elsie, nee Holden, a milliner. She studied art at the Wimbledon College of Art from 1954 to 1957 and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts during 1959. Before she graduated, Wise was already showing works with a group of Constructionist artists, exhibiting at the 1957 Young Contemporaries exhibition at the Royal British A...

10Apr

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Liliane Marchais, activist

Liliane Marchais –a French communist activist – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 9 April 2020. Born in Malakoff on 24 August 1935, Marchais' father was a toolmaker, and her mother was unemployed. In 1961, she married Maurice Garcia, a member of the French Communist Party, with whom she had a daughter, Annie. The couple divorced, and Liliane married Georges Marchais in 1977. They had a son, Olivier. The family lived in Champigny-sur-Marne, a suburb southeast of Paris. The holder of a Certificat d'études primaires and a Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle, Marchais worked as a cable worker for Compagne générale de la télégraphie sans fil in her hometown of Malakoff. At age 15, she joined the...

9Apr

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France, Medics, Profiles

Pierre Gilet, General Practitioner

Pierre Gilet, 64, a General Practitioner, Dannemarie, France – passed away on 8 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Gilet was 64 years old. "In general, kids cry at the doctor. At Doctor's home, mine only laughed. He was our country doctor. I almost never went to the pediatrician thanks to him, ”recalls his hairdresser and patient, Dominique. Pierre Gilet, hospitalized on March 22 in Mulhouse, died on April 8. He had proudly shown his trombine to Dominique during their last meeting. The evening of the announcement of the national confinement, the mayor Paul Mumbach had called upon him to recognize a death in the commune. “An old man had just thrown himself into the canal after learning that he was infected. When w...

Elisabeth Rolande Adjibodou, Nursing Assistant

8Apr

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Elisabeth Rolande Adjibodou, Nursing Assistant

Elisabeth Rolande Adjibodou, a Nursing Assistant at EHPAD Korian, Mulhouse, France, died due to COVID-19 on April 7 at the age of 43. She was a mother of three children. Source: Medscape Please help us in adding details.

Jean-Laurent Cochet, movie director and actor

8Apr

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Jean-Laurent Cochet, movie director and actor

Jean-Laurent Cochet - a French director and actor – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was best known for starring in movies such as A Thousand Billion Dollars and Fort Saganne. He was an important teacher for acting. Hundreds of his students have succeeded in theater and cinema.

8Apr

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Robert Chaudenson, linguist

Robert Chaudenson - a French linguist – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. He was a specialist in creole languages and an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Provence. He was a widely known author on the subject of creolistics and president of the International Committee of Creole Studies. He was born in Lyon, and died aged 82, just 5 days before his 83rd birthday in Metropolitan France due to complications of COVID-19.

8Apr

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Henri Madelin, theologian

Henri Madelin –a French Jesuit priest and theologian – passed away on 8 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19. Madelin was born on 26 April 1936 in a family of nine children. His family moved to Blois in 1939, where Madelin practiced scouting. After studying philosophy at the Jesuit formation in Vals-près-le-Puy, two years at Collège Libermann in Douala, and studying theology in Fourvière, Madelin was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus in 1967. In 1973, Madelin became director of Action populaire, which became the Center for Research and Social Action (CERAS). After earning a doctorate in political science, he chaired the Centre Sèvres in Paris from 1985 to 1991, when he was appointed national chapl...

7Apr

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Jacques Le Brun, historian

Jacques Le Brun ‑ a French historian who specialized in the study of Christianity in the 17th century – died on 6 April 2020 after suffering from coronavirus. Le Brun's first works were related to Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. He was Director of Honorary Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, and the Chair of History of Modern Catholicism at the school. In addition to his research, he also edited the works of François Fénelon. Jacques Le Brun died on 6 April 2020 at the age of 88 after contracting Covid-19.

6Apr

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Michel Parisse, historian

Michel Parisse -- a French historian who specialized in medieval studies died on 5 April 2020 at the age of 83 due to COVID-19. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Parisse earned his agrégation in history in 1959. He earned two doctoral degrees, with the first coming in 1966. His thesis was titled Actes des évêques de Metz (1120-1179). His second doctoral degree came in 1975, with the thesis La noblesse lorraine (xie – xiiie siècle). He was a professor at Nancy 2 University from 1965 to 1993. He was the Director of ARTEM from 1983 to 1993, which conducted research on medieval texts and their meanings. He directed the French Historical Mission in Germany from 1985 to 1991, and then wo...