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Bernadette Chirac

1933 – 2026 · Politician

🕯 279 · ✍️ 13 · 📷 3

Politics

Édouard Balladur

1929 – 2026 · Economist, Politician

🕯 412 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 3

Film

Marjane Satrapi

1969 – 2026 · Film director, Novelist, Actor

🕯 330 · ✍️ 12 · 📷 1

Science

Marie Curie

1867 – 1934 · Physicist and chemist

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

🕯 129 · ✍️ 13 · 📷 5

Music

Michel Fano

1929 – 2026 · Composer, sound designer, filmmaker, writer, teacher, and producer.

“He taught cinema to listen as one composition.”

🕯 41 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Literature

Mireille Calle-Gruber

1945 – 2026 · Literary critic, academic, essayist, editor, novelist and exhibition curator

“Critic and professor who kept Claude Simon, Butor and the créatrices vividly alive.”

🕯 65 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 1

Music

Francois Rosse

1945 – 2026 · Composer, pianist, and improviser; teacher of musical analysis; author of texts in French and German

“Alsatian-born composer and pianist who treated improvisation as a way of thinking composition.”

🕯 64 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Acting

Michel Paulin

1933 – 2026 · Actor; French voice actor and dubbing artist; occasional stage director

“Narrator of Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or; French voice of Chinatown's Jake Gittes.”

🕯 87 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 2

Politics / Feminism

Yvette Roudy

1929 – 2026 · Politician; feminist activist; translator; journalist; minister; member of parliament; mayor

“France's first women's rights minister. She made abortion reimbursable and wrote equality into working life.”

🕯 52 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Arts

Yves Brunier

1941 – 2026 · puppeteer; actor; author; marionnettiste; mascot designer; art critic; artistic director

“The man inside Casimir, France's gentle orange dinosaur.”

🕯 71 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2

Politics

Charles Josselin

1938 – 2026 · Politician; economist; French Socialist Party figure; minister; deputy; senator; MEP; departmental president; mayor

“Breton socialist who renamed the Côtes-d'Armor and beat Big Oil.”

🕯 63 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2

Literature

Didier Decoin

1945 – 2026 · Novelist; screenwriter (film and television); journalist; Académie Goncourt member and former president; former SGDL president; SCAM co-founder

“Goncourt storyteller; Cotentin sea; high idea of language.”

🕯 87 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 4

Arts

Jean-François Leroy

1956 – 2026 · Photojournalist; magazine editor; festival director / co-founder of Visa pour l'Image; photography agent; company president (Images-Évidence from 2009)

“He made Perpignan a beacon: go and see, never look away.”

🕯 91 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 2