French Nazi collaborator Papon dies
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Maurice Papon, a former Cabinet minister who became a symbol of France's collaboration with the Nazis for his role in deporting Jews during the Second World War, has died.Comment
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Vandals targeted the grave of Marshal Philippe Petain, the leader of France's wartime Vichy regime that collaborated with the Nazis, an official said Wednesday.
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A celebration marking Paris' 60th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany is planned next week. But nothing official was planned for a more somber anniversary Wednesday &#151; the liberation of a Jewish detention camp outside Paris that ended one of the most shameful episodes in modern French history.
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Marcel Marceau, the French mime artist who for 60 years transfixed international audiences with his stage persona Bip the Clown, has died at the age of 84, relatives said Sunday.
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French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon was buried Wednesday with his Legion of Honor award, his lawyer said, even though he had earlier been stripped of the right to wear the decoration.
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French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon is fined for illegally wearing France's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur.
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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 83, one of his children told AFP on Sunday.
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Convicted French Nazi collaborator  Maurice Papon asked to be buried wearing his Legion d'Honneur  medal for services to France, his lawyer said on Sunday,  causing fresh controversy after his death.
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Maurice Papon, the only French Nazi  official to be convicted for his role in the deportation of  Jews during World War Two, has died at the age of 96, police  sources said on Saturday.
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Former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre, an economist who also served as a European commissioner, died on Saturday, his family said. He was 83.
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The death of one of the greatest figures in modern French literature, Henri Troyat, is announced in Paris.
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French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon believed he could do no wrong if he was acting in the service of the state.
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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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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 son of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, Brahim Deby, was killed Monday in the car park of his apartment building in the Paris region, a source close to the investigation said.
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A plan by French President Nicolas  Sarkozy to commemorate a young communist resistance hero shot  by France's wartime Nazi occupiers has stirred controversy and  sparked accusations of manipulation by the government.
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A Romanian church leader who was exposed as a collaborator a week ago dies of a heart attack.