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Saint-Brieuc is a city in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.
Édouard-Jean, 3rd Baron Empain was a French-Belgian industrialist, best known by the general public for his kidnapping in 1978.
Christian Henri Marquand was a French actor.
Pickpocket is a 1959 French film written and directed by Robert Bresson. It stars Martin LaSalle, who was a nonprofessional actor at the time, in the title role, and features Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie, and Jean Pélégri in supporting roles. The film is generally considered to be one of Bresson's greatest films.
Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude was a French veteran of the Algerian War (1954–62), former member of the OAS' Commando Delta, a nationalist terrorist group. He then became the informant of police officer Lucien Aimé-Blanc, former vice chief of staff of the Antigang brigade and of the Narcotics brigade. Jean-Pierre "Maïon" was assassinated on 13 June 1982 at Argent-sur-Sauldre, in the Cher province, soon after being free from prison. In 2006, Lucien Aimé-Blanc revealed that Maïon had acknowledged having assassinated Pierre Goldman in 1979 on behalf of the GAL Spanish death squad. Aimé-Blanc also stated that he may have been responsible for the assassination of Henri Curiel in 1978.
Raymond Pellegrin was a French actor.
The Cop is a 1970 French-Italian crime film directed by Yves Boisset that stars Michel Bouquet and Françoise Fabian. With considerable moral ambiguity, it tells the story of a committed policeman in a crooked force who concludes that the only way to avenge the murder of a colleague by criminals is to use their own weapons of beatings and shootings. Its portrayal of police corruption and violence led to demands from French government ministers for extensive cuts or a total ban and in the end the French release had a few cuts.
The Sicilian Clan is a 1969 French-Italian gangster film based on the novel by Auguste Le Breton. It was directed by Henri Verneuil and stars Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura and Alain Delon, whose casting has been credited with the film's box office success in France. Ennio Morricone composed the score for the film.
Michel Marie Claparède was a French general.
Sady Rebbot was a French actor. He appeared in 68 films and television shows between 1959 and 1994. He starred with Anna Karina in the 1962 film Vivre sa vie.
Bernard Borderie was a French film director and screenwriter. His father, Raymond Borderie, was one of the producers of Les Enfants du Paradis.
Michel Magne was a French film and experimental music composer.
La belle américaine is a French comedy film from 1961, directed by Robert Dhéry, written by Alfred Adam and starring Alfred Adam and Louis de Funès. The film was known under the titles La bella americana (Italian), The American Beauty (English) and Der tolle Amerikaner (German).
Max et les ferrailleurs is a 1971 crime drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the novel of the same name by Claude Néron. The film stars Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider, with François Périer and Georges Wilson in supporting roles.
Victims of Vice is a 1978 French film directed by Jacques Scandelari based on Michel Brice's novel edited by Gérard de Villiers.
Henri Cogan was a French actor and stuntman.
Élie Le Goff was a French sculptor born in 1858 and who died in 1938. He was a pupil of Henri Chapu and Paul Guibe and was the father of Paul, Élie junior and Henri who were all artists and sculptors. All three sons lost their lives in the 1914–1918 war. Élie junior and Paul both joined the 71st Infantry Regiment in August 1914 then moved to the 74th Infantry Regiment, both dying from gas inhalation at Boezinge in Belgium on 22 April 1915. Henri was killed in 1918 in fighting around the Meuse.
Pierre Bilger was a French high-ranking civil servant and businessman. He was a tax inspector and advisor to several ministers. He served as the chief executive officer of Alstom from 1991 to 2003.
Nicolas Vogel was an actor and comedian who was featured in numerous films and television shows in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Man from Chicago (1963), Le Gitan (1975), Mado (1976), and Cop or Hood (1979). Vogel also held a small role in the 1995 film Les Misérables, directed by Claude Lelouch.
Leontine is a 1968 French comedy crime film directed by Michel Audiard and starring Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier and Marlène Jobert.
