French director de Broca dies
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French filmmaker Philippe de Broca, whose works include King of Hearts and That Man from Rio, died on Friday aged 71, according to a close aide.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan, who died last week,  is buried  in south-west France.
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Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of  modern French literature and one of France's most popular  biographers, has died at the age of 95, the Academie Francaise  said on Monday.
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Philippe Noiret, a beloved French actor featured in the popular "Il Postino" ("The Postman"), died Thursday, the Culture Ministry said. He was 76.
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Playbill - Marcel Marceau, the Frenchman whose name was synonymous with the art of mime, has died, according to Reuters. He was 84.
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Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president&#39;s office announced.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan has died in the north-western town of Honfleur aged 69. She died of heart and lung failure a few days after being admitted to a local hospital.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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Baron Guy de Rothschild, who managed his family's French banking empire and saw it taken over first during the Nazi occupation and then by a Socialist government 40 years later, has died. He was 98.
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LOS ANGELES The director who helped spawn the &quot;skin flick&quot; genre with such films as &quot;Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!&quot; and &quot;Vixen,&quot; has died.
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Jacques Martin, the French television personality once married to now-first lady Cecilia Sarkozy, died Friday. He was 74.
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World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president&#39;s office said Saturday.
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The world&#39;s best-known mime artist,  Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday,  saying his family had informed it of his death.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's office said on Sunday.
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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died, French authorities said on Thursday.Comment
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World renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a founder of the school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, has died, the office of French President Jacques Chirac said Saturday.
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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose  trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died,  French television said on Thursday. He was 76.