Anne Bragance

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Anne Bragance (Casablanca, 1945) is a French writer. [1]

She was born in Morocco. She moved to Paris when she was sixteen years old and published her first novel when she was 28: «Tous les désespoirs vous sont permis ›› .

Selected works

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  1. "Anne Bragance".