René Fallet, a renowned 20th-century French literary luminary, was born on December 4, 1927, and departed this mortal coil on July 25, 1983.
His illustrious career as a writer was marked by the creation of a novel that would later serve as the inspiration for the 1981 cinematic adaptation, La Soupe aux choux.
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