2023 deaths

Henri Korn (15 February 1934 – 2 November 2023) was a French neuroscientist with the Pasteur Institute.

Sophie Fillières (20 November 1964 – 31 July 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter who wrote for more than fifteen film and television productions from 1991 on.Fillières died on 31 July 2023, at the age of 58.

Georges Bereta (15 May 1946 – 4 July 2023) was a French footballer who played as a striker. From 1966 to 1974 he played for Saint-Étienne before moving onto Marseille until he retired in 1978.

Jean-Paul Costa (3 November 1941 – 27 April 2023) was a French jurist and was the President of the European Court of Human Rights from 19 January 2007 until his term at the Court ended on 3 November 2011. He was first appointed a judge of the Court on 1 November 1998, and in 2009 was elected to serve an additional three years as President.

Christiane Collange (29 October 1930 – 24 October 2023) was a French journalist and author.

Denis Kessler (25 March 1952 – 9 June 2023) was a French businessman. He served as the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of SCOR SE from 2002 until his death. Prior to this, he served as vice-chairman of MEDEF and CEO of AXA.

Jean Bergougnoux (15 October 1939 – 3 September 2023) was a French businessman. He served as Director-General of Électricité de France (EDF) from 1987 to 1994 and was President of the SNCF from 1994 to 1995.

Tony Charles Louis Dreyfus (9 January 1939 – 26 April 2023) was a French politician. A member of the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2012, he represented the city of Paris, and was a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. Dreyfus died on 26 April 2023, at the age of 84.

Marc Augé (2 September 1935 – 24 July 2023) was a French anthropologist.
In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to spaces where concerns of relations, history, and identity are erased. Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket.

Alexandre Adler (23 September 1950 – 18 July 2023) was a French historian, journalist and expert of contemporary geopolitics, the former USSR, and the Middle East. He was a Knight of the Legion of Honour (2002). A Maoist in his youth and then a member of the Communist Party (PCF), he shifted to the right at the end of the 1970s and later became close to U.S. neoconservatives, as did his wife Blandine Kriegel (daughter of the communist Resistant Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont). Adler was the counsellor of Roger Cukiermann, chairman of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF, Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France).