Film-maker Claude Lanzmann has sold 112 passionate love letters sent to him by the legendary French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, Christie's auction house said Friday.
The director of the acclaimed Holocaust documentary "Shoah" said he has been forced to part with the correspondence because of a "scandalous" French inheritance law which means that they must go to her family on his death.
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"I am completely against death," declared Claude Lanzmann, the maker of the landmark documentary on the Holocaust, "Shoah", who lost his 23-year-old son Felix to cancer two months ago.
His face wracked with grief, the former French Resistance fighter insisted that at 91 he is far from finished himself -- with a film on North Korea to complete.
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