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Claude Fagedet

French photographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ2977359
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Claude Fagedet (30 March 1928 – 26 June 2017) was a French photographer. He took many photographs of Occitanie, including his hometown of Narbonne and the chalets in Gruissan. He also took photographs on his many trips abroad. He was awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France.

His funeral took place on June 29, 2019 at the Saint-Just Saint-Pasteur cathedral in Narbonne.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Claude Fagedet” as french photographer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2017, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-03-31. The account is most persuasive where Claude, Fagedet and French can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Claude Fagedet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.