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- Valerie Quennessen became an actress almost by accident. She started out performing as a child as an acrobat. She was very accomplished in this field and won an award at the age of ten. However, she hadn't seriously considered performing for a living. In her late teens, she enrolled in acting classes as therapy, to overcome severe shyness. To her surprise, she found she enjoyed it and her abilities were noted positively by others. So after briefly attending the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Techniques du Theatre, she left school to perform full time. She won supporting roles in various projects. Her big break was her role in French Postcards (1979) in 1978. The following year, she completed her studies and traveled to the United States to find roles in Hollywood. She won a role as a princess in Conan the Barbarian (1982), a role she accepted because she had enjoyed fairy tales as a child. She became more familiar to American audiences when she starred in Summer Lovers (1982) with Peter Gallagher and Daryl Hannah. Playing an archaeologist, she dug at an ancient find and, to everyone's surprise, found some real ancient pottery from some 3,500 years ago. The film achieved box office success, in spite of poor reviews. However, afterwards, she left Hollywood to concentrate on her family life.
In 1989, she died in an automobile accident. She was 31 years old. - Pascal Mazzotti was born on 16 December 1923 in Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. He was an actor, known for D'Artagnan (1969), Aux frontières du possible (1971) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). He died on 19 June 2002 in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, Val-d'Oise, France.
- Sylvain Chamarande was born on 20 February 1954 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Au théâtre ce soir (1966), Embraye bidasse... ça fume (1978) and Les bidasses au pensionnat (1978). He died on 10 November 2021 in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Emmanuelle Marie was born on 28 January 1965 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress, known for Inséparables (1999). She died on 9 May 2007 in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- François Mario Bachand (March 24, 1944 in Montreal - March 29, 1971 in St. Ouen) was a member of the first (1963) wave of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec).
Mario Bachand was a member of the Front de Liberation du Quebec, imprisoned for his role in planting bombs in Montreal. On 17 May 1963 a bomb crippled Walter Leja, a Canadian army explosives technician. After his release, Bachand remained politically active in Montreal, founding several activist, leftist movements. He was an effective organizer, and was largely responsible for organizing the McGill-français demonstration of March 1969. He was close friends with Jacques Lanctôt, who in 1970 would lead the Liberation Cell in the kidnapping of British diplomat James Cross, the event that initiated the October Crisis.
In April 1969 Bachand fled to Havana, where he met up with other FLQ who had sought refuge in Cuba, including Pierre Charette, Alain Allard and Raymond Villeneuve. Bachand was very much a socialist, and did not view Quebec nationalism, particularly its Parti Québécois manifestation, very positively. This brought him in conflict with certain other FLQ who were more sovereigntist, such as Raymond Villeneuve and Denis Lamoureux.
In June 1970 he left Cuba for Paris. He was found shot to death in the apartment of Pierre Barral and his wife, Françoise, in the Paris suburb of St. Ouen on March 29, 1971, following a cous cous lunch with them and Normand Roy and Denyse Leduc of the DEFLQ (Delegation extérierure du FLQ). He was assassinated by gunshot