Robert Badinter

Avocat, universitaire, essayiste et homme politique français, Robert Badinter s’inscrit au barreau de Paris en 1951, il débute sa carrière d’avocat comme collaborateur d’Henry Torrès. Il soutient une thèse sur les conflits de droit aux États-Unis et réussit l’agrégation de droit en 1965. Le procès le plus célèbre où il intervient est certainement celui de Patrick Henry, meurtrier d’un garçon de sept ans en 1976. Grâce à sa plaidoirie contre la peine de mort en 1977, il sauve la tête de Patrick Henry, ce dernier étant condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité. C’est le commencement de la fin pour la peine capitale.
Ancien président du Conseil constitutionnel, il est principalement connu pour son combat contre la perpétuité réelle et la

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David Foenkinos is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director who studied both literature and music in Paris.

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Après des études de droit et un diplôme de l'Université Paris II, Karine Tuil est l'auteur de neuf romans, d'une pièce de théâtre et de plusieurs scénarios.
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Éric Vuillard

Born in Lyons in 1968, Éric Vuillard is a French author and film director. His books include Conquistadors (winner of the Ignatius J. Reilly prize 2010), and La Bataille de l'occident and Congo, for both of which he was awarded the 2012 Franz-Hessel prize and the 2013 Valery-Larbaud prize. Sorrow of the Earth is the first of his titles to be translated into English.
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Albert Camus

Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.

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Magali Le Huche

Magali Le Huche was born in Paris. She studied illustration in Strasbourg, then returned to Paris where she has illustrated more than forty books for children, some of which she also wrote. She regularly teaches art workshops for young people.
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Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the Sorbonne, she became a writer.

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Je suis née à Genève à l'automne 1973.

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