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Born in Paris in 1943, Jean des Cars is a writer, historian, and journalist and the biographer of several major romantic figures, including Sissi, Louis II de Bavière, and La princesse Mathilde. His albums of reference, l'Orient-Express and Transsibérien, les trains des Rois et des Présidents, have been translated into several languages and have won Académie française awards. He also organizes historical trips, often centred around legendarily famous trains.