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The photo of the actress and her boyfriend in 1950s Paris struck a chord and it was reproduced on everything from key fobs to tea towels

Françoise Delbart, who has died in Normandy aged 93, was formerly an actress, but it was none of the roles in her brief career that made her face familiar to millions; that happened decades after a photograph for which she had posed in the 1950s became, as “The Kiss”, an imperishable image of Paris as the City of Love.