Crepin, who was known for his loyalty to Gen . Charles de Gaulle in World War II, started out as an artillery lieutenant in 1930, attained the five-star rank of general d'armee in 1961 and retired from active service in 1967.
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Gen . Jean Crepin, a retired French army officer who oversaw the development of the Exocet missiles that played a key role in the war in the Falklands, died Saturday in the French department of Seine-et-Marne, near Paris, where he lived.
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Crepin served in Vietnam in the mid 1940s during that country's fight against French rule, and in Algeria in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when it was racked by a pro-independence revolt and by dissidence among French settlers and French military personnel there.
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Five French witnesses have also backed out of appearing at The Hague : former French intelligence service head Yves Bonnet; doctor Patrick Barriot; nurse Eve Crepin; Gen . Pierre-Marie Gallois; and former member of parliament Gabriel Kaspereit, the Serbian news agency Beta reported.
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Who had ever heard of the painter Simon of the " Halle-au-Ble " section, of the toy-maker Bonhommet, of Auvray, an usher from Montmartre, of Crepin the decorator, of Caillieaux the ribbon-maker, or of the " declasse " aristocrat Duroure?
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The Port of Le Havre and the light on the estuary of the Seine inspired many painters : Louis-Philippe Crepin ( 1772 1851 ), Jean-Baptiste Corot ( 1796 1875 ), Eug�ne Isabey ( 1803 1886 ), Theodore Gudin ( 1802 1880 ), Adolphe-Felix Cals ( 1810 1880 ), Jean-Fran�ois Millet ( 1814 1875 ) in 1845, Gustave Courbet ( 1819 1877 ) etc ..
