Jacques Faizant, 1918-2006

Pravda and American wire services are reporting that Jacques Faizant, a fixture of France culture as the longtime front-page cartoonist for Le Figaro, passed away on Saturday. He had retired late last year after a lengthy career at the paper, a retirement that may have come in great part due to health reasons. Faizant's most famous cartoon came after the death of Charles De Gaulle in 1970s, when Faizant depicted Marianne, a symbol for France, weeping over a fallen oak. Media reports at the time of his retirement said Faizant drew over 30,000 cartoons for the newspaper.
 
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