The author who wrote the book on which a 1953 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot was based was born in what French city?
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Georges Arnaud Henri Girard (1917 - 1987) is a French author who used the pseudonym Georges Arnaud. He was born in France, in Montpellier. He is the author of the novel "The Wages of Fear" (French: "Le salaire de la peur" ).
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The Wages of Fear The Wages of Fear (French: Le salaire de la peur ) is a 1953 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, and based on the 1950 French novel "Le salaire de la peur" (lit. "The Salary of Fear") by Georges Arnaud. When an oil well owned by an American company catches fire, the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames. The film brought Clouzot international fame, and allowed him to direct "Les Diaboliques". In France the film was the 4th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 6,944,306 admissions.
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Denise Morel Denise Morel (born 10 August 1946) is a French writer and psychiatrist. She was born in Setif, Algeria, the youngest of four children. Between the ages of 8 to 14, she lived in Bône. The family left Algeria in 1961 to live in Marseille. She studied in Aix-en-Provence and Paris, obtaining a PhD in clinical psychology from Université Paris V.
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Michel Orcel Michel Orcel (born 1952 in Marseille) is a contemporary French writer, publisher and psychoanalist.
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Thierry Marignac Thierry Marignac (born 1958 in Paris) is a French writer and journalist.
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Jean-Louis Baghio'o Jean-Louis Baghio'o (21 December 1910 – 20 December 1994) is the pseudonym of the French writer who was born as Victor Jean-Louis on 21 December 1910 at Fort-de-France (Martinique) to a family settled at Sainte-Anne (Guadeloupe), and who died in Paris on December 20, 1994.
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The Red and the Black (film) The Red and the Black (French: "Le rouge et le noir" ) is a 1954 French drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, based on the novel "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal. The film starred Gerard Philipe, Antonella Lualdi and Danielle Darrieux, and won the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics award for the best film of 1955 and the Grand Prix de l'Académie du Cinéma the same year.
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La Boîte à merveilles La Boîte à merveilles is an autobiographical 1954 novel by writer Ahmed Sefrioui.
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A Bag of Marbles A Bag of Marbles (French: "Un sac de billes" ) is a Second World War autobiographical novel by the French Jewish author Joseph Joffo. It tells the story of his flight, as a small boy, with his brother Maurice to escape from Nazi occupied France to the Zone Libre. Joffo was refused by many publishers before being encouraged by the newly founded publishing house Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès to get the help of an editor to polish the text. The book was a phenomenal best-seller, being made into a major film two years later.
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Donna Leon Donna Leon ( ; born September 28, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.
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The Red Head (1952 film) The Red Head (French: Poil de carotte) is a 1952 French drama film directed by Paul Mesnier and starring Raymond Souplex, Germaine Dermoz and Pierre Larquey. It is based on the novel "Poil de carotte" by Jules Renard which had previously adapted into films twice by Julien Duvivier before the Second World War.
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Michel Caffier Michel Caffier (born 17 June 1930 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) is a French journalist, writer and literary critic. He is the author of an abundant work centered on Lorraine: historical novels, essays and reference works, including the "Dictionnaire des littératures de Lorraine".
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Jean-Paul Dubois Jean-Paul Dubois (born in 1950 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a French writer.
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Robert Briffault Robert Stephen Briffault {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (] , 1874 – 11 December 1948) was a French surgeon who found fame as a social anthropologist and later in life as a novelist.
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Henri René Guieu Henri René Guieu (19 March 1926 – 2 January 2000) was a French science fiction writer and a famous ufologist who published primarily with the pseudonym Jimmy Guieu. He occasionally used other pseudonyms as well, including "Claude Vauzière" for a young adult series, "Jimmy G. Quint" (with Georges Pierquin) for a number of espionage novels, "Claude Rostaing" for two detective novels and "Dominique Verseau" for six erotic novels.
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Alessandro Mercuri Alessandro Mercuri is a French-Italian author and director, born in 1973.
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Clément Vautel Clément Vautel, pen name of Clément-Henri Vaulet (31 January 1876 – 23 December 1954) was a journalist, novelist and playwright of Belgian origin, naturalized French (1897).
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A Balcony in the Forest A Balcony in the Forest (French: "Un balcon en forêt" ) is a 1958 novel by the French writer Julien Gracq. It tells the story of a French lieutenant, Grange, who is assigned to an old fortified building in the forest of the Ardennes in the autumn of 1939, where he waits at the outbreak of World War II together with a few men.
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Jean-Claude Pressac Jean-Claude Pressac (  1944 – 23 July 2003) was a French chemist and pharmacist by profession, who became a published authority on the Auschwitz concentration camp homicidal gas chambers deployed during the Holocaust in World War II. He is the author of the 1989 book "Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers" among other publications on the subject.
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Les Marins perdus Les Marins perdus is a 2003 French film based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo. It was written and directed by Claire Devers and stars Bernard Giraudeau, Miki Manojlovic, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Marie Trintignant, Ivan Franek, Audrey Tautou and Raphaël Lenglet.
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Philippe Collas Philippe Collas (born in France) is a French writer and scriptwriter who is famous for his historical and criminal thrillers.
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Adolphe Le Goaziou Adolphe Yves Marie Le Goaziou (April 16, 1887 – September 18, 1953) was a bookseller, publisher and member of the French Resistance in wartime Brittany.