1. Dominique Lapierre attended the Jesuit school in New Orleans and became a paper boy for the New Orleans Item.
13 Facts About Dominique Lapierre
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Dominique Lapierre hitch-hiked throughout the US living an adventurous existence, wrote articles, washed windows in churches, gave lectures, and even found a job as a siren cleaner on a boat returning to Europe.
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When Dominique Lapierre was eighteen, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study economics at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1952.
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Dominique Lapierre sold the Chrysler for $400 in San Francisco and bought two tickets on the SS President Cleveland for Japan.
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When Dominique Lapierre was discharged, he found work as a reporter for the magazine Paris Match.
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On several occasions, Collins and Dominique Lapierre met while on assignment.
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Dominique Lapierre was proud that after spending a great deal of time in Jerusalem he knew each alley, square, street, and building in the Holy City intimately.
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Dominique Lapierre donated half the royalties he earned from this book to support several humanitarian projects in Kolkata, including refuge centres for leper and polio children, dispensaries, schools, rehabilitation workshops, education programs, sanitary actions, and hospital boats.
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Dominique Lapierre funded a primary school in Oriya Basti, one of the settlements described in Five Past Midnight in Bhopal.
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Dominique Lapierre rushed to the auction, made a bid, and won it.
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Dominique Lapierre has told stories about how he drove the car in reverse to have enough torque to get through the mountain passes.
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Dominique Lapierre died on 2 December 2022, at the age of 91.
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Dominique Lapierre was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award in the 2008 Republic Day honours list.