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- Blanchette Brunoy was born on 5 October 1915 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Le mannequin assassiné (1948), La Bête Humaine (1938) and It Happened at the Inn (1943). She was married to Maurice Maillot and Robert Hommet. She died on 4 April 2005 in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.
- Christian Barbier was born on 28 June 1924 in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He was an actor, known for Army of Shadows (1969), Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960) and Messieurs les jurés (1974). He died on 3 November 2009 in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.
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French novelist Jean Giono was born in a small town in the French Alps in 1895. His grandfather was an officer in the French army who took part in the brutal French campaign against the Spanish guerrillas, then turned against his government, was tried and sentenced to death and escaped by hiding in the mountains, where Jean was later born. Giono dropped out of school at 16 years of age; his father, who had married and fathered children late in his life, was old and ill, and Jean had to work to support the family. He joined the army in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, fought at the battle of Verdun--one of the bloodiest in history--and left the army at war's end. He began writing soon afterwards, and in 1921 his poem "Sous le Pied Chaud du Soleil" was published in a Marseilles journal, and in 1924 it was published as a book. Four years later his short story "Champs" was published, and over the next few years several of his novels were published (his 1931 novel "Lovers Are Never Losers" won the Prix Brentano prize). His experiences during World War I apparently turned him into a pacifist, and in 1934 he joined a French political organization to fight what he saw as the march towards war, and especially fascism, in France; in 1939, after France had declared war on Germany, he was arrested by the French government for urging the populace to oppose the war and refuse to fight in it. He died in his native Manosque, France, in 1970.- Marcelle Arnold was born on 4 May 1917 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France. She was an actress, known for Shadow of the Guillotine (1956), Château en Suède (1964) and Le mariage de Figaro (1961). She was married to Louis Boucher. She died on 31 March 2010 in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.
- Jean Landier was born on 22 September 1923 in Lausanne, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for The Last Adventure (1967), Portrait of a Woman (1942) and Manouche (1943). He died in 2000 in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.
- José Aboulker was born on 5 March 1920 in Alger, Algeria. He died on 11 November 2009 in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
- Iwonka de Petry was born on 11 November 1929 in Warsaw, Poland. She was an actress, known for Przez lzy do szczescia (1943). She died on 15 March 2022 in Manosque, France.