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The woman in the legendary Parisian “The Kiss at City Hall” photo, which came to symbolize Paris as the “City of Love”, is dead. Françoise Bornet died on Christmas Day near Paris at the age of 93, a close friend confirmed to the newspaper Le Parisien. Star photographer Robert Doisneau took the photo “Le Baiser de l’Hotel de Ville,” which shows a couple kissing in front of Paris City Hall, in the spring of 1950. The black and white image became probably Doisneau’s (1912-1994) most famous photograph. The devoted but posed kissing photo, which has come to symbolise the cliché of Paris as the “cit…

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