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"France has lost its mirror",announces Libération, following the news of the September 12 passing of French filmmaker and New Wave pioneer Claude Chabrol, at the age of 80. "A less than flattering mirror", continues the daily, making note of a career that stretched over more than 60 films in which this "bon vivant" delighted in creating "scathing portraits of the underside of French society", most notably "of life in the provinces and of the bourgeoisie.
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