I don't know what's going on in France when Spring starts, but the amount of newborn babies around Christmas is astounding. On 27 December 1925, little actor-to-be Michel Piccoli [wiki] saw the light, which makes him 83 today. On the same date in 1948, Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu [wiki] took his first breath and became one of France's most celebrated (and richest) actors. Piccoli played in nearly sixty films, Depardieu in more than eighty, and neither has stopped yet.

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