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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

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Re: Ex-French Foreign Correspondent, POW, Dies

Date: February 06, 2002

"Ex-French Foreign Correspondent Dies

PARIS - Adalbert de Bardon de Segonzac, a former French resistance fighter and foreign correspondent who served in London and Washington, has died near Paris. He was 89.

The former air captain in the Free French Forces and correspondent for daily newspaper France-Soir died in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine on Dec. 27, Le Monde newspaper reported.

De Segonzac was born in Paris on July 25, 1912. He fought with the French army in World War II before being wounded and escaping to Gibraltar and then London in 1942. De Segonzac then fought with the Free French as a fighter pilot until he was shot down and taken to Germany as a prisoner of war in 1944.

After the war, the reporter directed France-Soir's London bureau until 1956 and its Washington office until 1976.

De Segonzac held the British Distinguished Flying Cross and was an Officer of the French Legion of Honor."

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