Belmondo, French film's handsome devil, dies at 88
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With his devil-may-care charm, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who has died aged 88, was the poster boy of the New Wave, France's James Dean and Humphrey Bogart rolled into one irresistible man. With his boxer's physique and broken nose, his restless insouciance chimed with the mould-breaking French cinema of the 1960s.