In this year 1959, General de Gaulle officially becomes the first president of the Fifth Republic.
He is 68 years old.
André Malraux is appointed to Cultural Affairs.
He is 58 years old.
François Truffaut makes
The Four Hundred Blows
.
He is 27 years old.
Boris Vian deserts for good.
He is 39 years old.
And Gérard Philipe dies of liver cancer, a disease he was unaware of.
He was 36 years old.
It was Wednesday, November 25.
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From his birth name Philip, Gérard was born on December 4, 1922 in Cannes, the same year as Maria Casarès and Micheline Presle who were his great partners on stage and on screen.
If he lost his life early, he will not have - small consolation, but a sine qua non of the making of a myth - lost his mineral beauty, his instinctive fantasy and his mad energy.
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The life of Gérard Philipe is the story of a young man of yesteryear, of a boy his father - there would be a lot to say about this lawyer father and collaborating businessman sentenced to death in absentia -, this father…
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