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Honorary Professor of College de France and Pasteur Institute
Former Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences
François Gros was born on the 24th of April 1925. Pupil in the lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine, he studied sciences in Toulouse from 1942 to 1944, and in Paris from 1944 to 1945. He began his career as a volunteer at the Pasteur Institute.
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Former President of the Republic of Senegal
General Secretary of the International Organisation of French Speaking Communities
Abdou Diouf was born on the 7th of September 1935 in Louga. He went to primary and secondary school at the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis, and studied law at Dakar University and then at the Sorbonne, Paris. He graduated from the National School of Overseas France in 1960.
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Nobel Peace Prize
Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. He was fifteen years old when he was deported to Auschwitz along with his family. His mother and his sister died there. He was later deported to Buchenwald with his father, who died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945.
