Full name Jean-Pierre Genet Role Film director Name Jean-Pierre Genet | Discipline Road Nickname Bouton d'Or Spouse Liza Sullivan (m. 1997) | |
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Born 24 October 1940
Brest, France ( 1940-10-24 ) Died 15 March 2005(2005-03-15) (aged 64)
Loctudy, France Awards Cesar Award for Best Film, Cesar Award for Best Director Nominations Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Movies Amelie, The Young and Prodigiou, Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement Similar People Audrey Tautou, Dominique Pinon, Marc Caro, Mathieu Kassovitz, Guillaume Laurant | ||
Jean-Pierre Genet (24 October 1940, in Brest – 15 March 2005, in Loctudy) was a professional road bicycle racer from Brest, France from 1964 to 1976. During this time he stayed with one cycling team, the Mercier team of Raymond Poulidor. He rode 13 editions of the Tour de France where he won three stages, once each in 1968, 1971 and 1974. He wore the maillot jaune for one day in the 1968 Tour de France. In 1967, Genet was the Lanterne rouge (last finishing cyclist) in the Tour de France.
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