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- Léo Malet was born on March 7, 1909 in Montpellier, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Nestor Burma, détective de choc (1982), Nestor Burma (1991) and 120, rue de la Gare (1946). He was married to Paulette Doucet. He died on March 3, 1996 in Chatillon-sous-Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- SpousePaulette Doucet(April 16, 1940 - May 2, 1981) (her death, 1 child)
- Poet, member of the French surrealist group, friends with Jacques Prévert (who was his wife's witness at their wedding), Yves Tanguy, André Breton, inventor of the surrealist process "décollage d'affiche".
- May 25 1940, was arrested with Benjamin Péret and others by the french police for "subversive publication". Liberated by prison guards at the beginning of German offensive, he was captured by the Germans and sent to stalag XB in northern Germany.
- First was an anarchist then member of a French Trotskyst group. Trotsky's secretary Rudolf Klement, disappeared after leaving Malet's home on January 1 1938. In August 1938, parts of his body (the head was missing) were fished out of the Seine, and Léo Malet identified them.
- Tuberculosis successively killed his father Gaston Malet, his brother Marcel Malet (in 1911) and his mother Louise Refreger (in 1912), so he was raised by his maternal grandfather Omer Refreger.
- In 1984, the Société des Gens de Lettres awarded him the first Paul Féval Prize of the Popular Novel for his works.
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