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Maurice Henrie (December 19, 1936 – October 1, 2024) was a Canadian writer and academic. [1] He was most noted as the winner of the Trillium Book Award for French literature in 1996 for his novel Le Balcon dans le ciel .
Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in Jardres 23 September 1906; died at La Verrière 1 January 1981) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. The son of a winemaking family from Poitou , he trained as a teacher at the École normale in Poitiers and then at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud . [ 1 ]
Maurice Nawalagmba Yaméogo (31 December 1921 – 15 September 1993) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, from 1960 until 1966. "Monsieur Maurice" embodied the Voltaic state at the moment of independence.
Van Maële was born in the commune of Boulogne sur Seine, once an important industrial town, near Paris, France, to Flemish [1] mother Virginie Mathilde Jeanne van Maële and French father Louis Alfred Martin (himself an engraver and later a teacher at the Beaux-Arts school in Geneva).
Maurice Boucher (21 June 1953 – 10 July 2022) was a Canadian gangster, convicted murderer, reputed drug trafficker, and outlaw biker—once president of the Quebec Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. [2]
Françoise Collin published two novels and collaborated on the first series of the magazine Luna-Park.. She studied in Paris with Jean Hyppolite and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and defended a thesis in literature and philosophy.
Maurice Asselin was born on 24 June 1882 in Orléans. [1] His father was a coachman, and his mother ran the tobacco shop La Pipe d'or at the corner of rue Sainte-Catherine and rue Jeanne-d'Arc, before they took over a restaurant called L'Auberge de la rue Sainte-Catherine.
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (/ l ə ˈ b l ɑː n /; French:; 11 December 1864 [2] – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.