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Also Known As Father Louis • Father M. Louis
Born January 31, 1915 • France
Died December 10, 1968 (aged 53) • Bangkok • Thailand
Notable Works “A Man in the Divided Sea” • “Figures for an Apocalypse” • “My Argument with the Gestapo” • “Seven Storey Mountain” • “Thirty Poems”

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