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- François Maspero was born on January 19, 1932 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for La plage noire (2001), Far from Vietnam (1967) and Les passagers du Roissy-Express (2013). He died on April 11, 2015 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
- Both his paternal grandfather Gaston, an egyptologist, and father, Henri, a China specialist, were renowned French intellectuals and professors at Collège de France.His father arrested with his wife for Resistance acts died in Buchenwald in march 1945.
- First a bookseller, he became a leftist publisher in Paris.
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