‘There are many, many broken families’: Paris victims and their stories

That Friday night, Nov. 13, was unseasonably warm, and Parisians had filled the soccer stadium, the concert hall and the sidewalk cafes. The terrorists took the lives of at least 130, among them lovers of music and art and beauty and design and the pleasure of conviviality. “The France that the attackers wanted to kill was youth in all its diversity,” French President François Hollande told lawmakers, “with most of the dead under the age of 30. Their names were Mathias, Quentin, Nick, Nohemi, Djamila, Helene, Elodie, Valentin, and I’m forgetting so many others. What was their crime? Being alive.”

Here are their names and some of their stories.

At Bataclan

Alban Denuit, 32

A contemporary artist, his sculptures made from everyday industrial objects were shown this year in Bordeaux, where he taught.

Antoine Mary, 34

Digital communications Web developer

Armelle Pumir Anticevic, 46

The print production manager for Logic Design Agency and mother of two became separated from her husband, Joseph, running for an exit.

Ariane Theiller, 23

An intern for French publisher Urban Comics, Theiller was a master’s student at the University of Strasbourg interested in drawing comics for younger readers.

Aurélie de Peretti, 33

She lived and worked in St. Tropez and came to Paris for the concert.

Baptiste Chevreau, 24

The grandson of well-known French singer Anne Sylvestre was teaching in a Paris music school.

Bertrand Navarret, 37

After abandoning a career in law, Navarret moved to Canada for several years, learned woodworking and returned to France, where he became a carpenter and avid surfboarder in Capbreton, near the Spanish border. He was visiting friends in Paris for a few days.

Caroline Prenat, 24

She recently had received her master’s in communication strategy.

Christophe Foultier, 39

A freelancer at the public-relations firm Havas Life, he was the father of a boy, 2, and a girl, 6.

Christophe Lellouche, 33

A composer, musician and sports fan, Lellouche was “a gem of a guy” with a “passion for joking,” a friend said.

Christophe Mutez, 48

Mutez, a computer software salesman working for PROS France, had a black belt in kung fu and a master’s degree in physics, according to his LinkedIn profile. Married and the father of two, “he was a great colleague,” Virginie Dupin, the firm’s vice president of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told The Washington Post, “very professional and very humble. It’s just terrible, all the teams . . . are extremely sad. There are many, many broken families. And having one colleague that is not showing up Monday when we were with him on Friday is very shocking.”

Christopher Neuet-Shalter, 39

Father of an 11-year-old daughter, he was a digital marketing consultant.

Claire Camax, 35

A graphic designer, she was the mother of two young children.

Claire Maîtrot-Tapprest, 23

She was a student in the master’s program at the Reims campus of the Neoma Business School.

Cédric Gomet, 30

A broadcast engineer for TV5Monde, he founded and was lead guitarist for an electro-rock band, First All the Machines.

Cédric Mauduit, 41 and David Perchirin, 45, attended the elite Sciences-Po Rennes together and went to the concert together. Mauduit was director of modernization for the regional government of Calvados, in the north of France. Perchirin was a former journalist who became a schoolteacher in 2014 in Seine Saint Denis.

Elodie Breuil, 23

A design student at Conde, she had marched with her mother at a rally in support of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, after its offices were attacked in January.

Elsa Veronique Delplace San Martin, 35

The French-born grandniece of the Chilean ambassador to Mexico, she was attending the concert with her mother, Patricia del Carmen San Martin Núñez, who also died, and her son, 5, who survived.

Emmanuel Bonnet, 47

A public transit worker, he went to the concert with his son, who escaped.

Eric Thomé, 39

Thomé was a lover of music, particularly underground music, explained his friend and business partner Laurent Duvoux, who escaped from the Bataclan. The two men, who knew each other for 15 years, ran the graphic design company We Are Ted, combining Duvoux’s illustrations with Thomé’s photography. “He was passionate about photography and movies” and was a generous man, Duvoux told The Washington Post.

Thomé’s partner is expecting their second child, Duvoux said. They have a daughter, 4. One series of photographs, titled “Stretches,” in which human forms are extended into huge architectural girders, explores the relationships among people and between them and their environment. “My goal,” Thomé said in a written description of the series, “is to make viewers reflect on the place of the human in our Western world.”

Estelle Rouat, 25

She was an English teacher in a middle school in the Paris suburbs.

Fabrice Dubois, 46

The father of two worked for a French ad agency. Several of his high-profile campaigns, including for the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, were featured in Ad Age’s Creativity.

Fabian Stech, 51

Born in Berlin, Fabian moved to France in 1994, where the doctor of philosophy and art critic taught German at a private school. The father of two, married to an attorney, he was “great . . . passionate about art. He was the first to challenge us, to take us to the opera,” one of his students told the radio station France Bleu.

Franck Pitiot, 33

A civil engineer who oversaw construction projects, he liked to roller-blade and juggle, to motorbike and run. The last item on a list of interests on his LinkedIn profile: humanitarianism.

Fanny Minot, 29

An editor for a French television newsmagazine show, Minot was such an adventurer that she and a friend traveled the United States by picking spots through a free-stay Web site for self-declared couch surfers. Doing that, she met Stephen Fox in Shelbyville, Ky., who then visited her in France for New Year’s Eve. “She just loved life,” he said.

François Xavier Prévost, 29

The head of advertising at the French advertising agency LocalMedia had been an exchange student in 2007 at the University of North Texas, an avid tennis player and an intern with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, a pro soccer team in Pennsylvania.

Frédéric Henninot, 45

The father of two worked in public relations for the Bank of France. His partner was injured but survived.

Germain Ferey, 36

The Paris-based photographer and film artist told his partner, and the mother of his toddler daughter, to run. She survived. “We think he told her to run because he wanted her to protect herself for the sake of the little one,” his sister said.

Gilles Leclerc, 32

He worked with his mother as a florist and was, friends said, “passionate about flowers, music and Formula One.” His girlfriend survived.

Grégory Fosse, 28

He was a music programmer for the TV station D17.

Guillaume B. Decherf, 43

The father of two Decherf was a reporter for Inrocks, a French music and culture magazine, who had written three weeks ago about the latest album by the Eagles of Death Metal.

Hélène Muyal-Leiris, 35

The makeup artist and mother received a defiant Facebook tribute from her husband that was read by millions. Written as a letter to the terrorists, Antoine Leiris wrote: “I won’t give you the gift of my hatred. It’s what you sought, but answering hate with anger would be to surrender to the same ignorance that has made you what you are.” Of the couple’s 17-month-old son, Leiris added: “”And you won’t have his hatred either.”

Hugo Sarrade, 23

A computer science student in Montpelier, he had come to Paris to visit his father and go to the concert.

Isabelle Merlin, 44

Merlin had just purchased a new apartment on the Left Bank but loved running on the wind-beaten beach at her family’s home, in La Voix du Nord. A former student at Academie du XIII, a music and arts school in Paris, she had worked for 14 years for the electronics company Continental and served as a project leader in the company’s acquisition of radio and multimedia systems.

Juan Alberto González Garrido, 29

The engineer was from Madrid but was living in Paris and at the concert with his wife.

Julien Galisson, 32

He had traveled from Nantes, 200 miles away, to hear the band.

Jean-Jacques Amiot, 68

He was a silkscreen printer and grandfather.

Jean-Jacques Kirchheim, 44

He worked for the telecommunications firm Free.

Lola Salines, 28

The young editor at Editions First-Gründdied was also Josie Ozzbourne, her team name as a member of a Parisian roller-derby league.

Madeleine Sadin, 30

She taught French at a school in the suburbs.

Marie Mosser, 24

She also worked for Universal Music France. Friends described her as “petillante,” or bubbly, and the “epitome of French chic,” with her Audrey Hepburn face.

Marie-Aimée Dalloz, 34

A mother, she worked for an asset management firm.

Marion Jouanneau, 24

She wanted to move to New York to continue her studies.

Mathieu Hoche, 38

A technician for France 24, he was the father of a 6-year-old.

Matthieu de Rorthais, 32

He was a graphic designer who had survived cancer.

Matthieu Giroud, 39

The university geography lecturer had a child, 3, and played the bass.

Maud Serrault, 37

The newlywed went to the concert with her husband, who escaped.

Maxime Bouffard, 26

The night he died, the independent filmmaker had just finished a music video for a French pop group.

Mayeul Gaubert, 30

He was a lawyer.

Nathalie Jardin, 31

She was the stage manager for lighting at the Bataclan. The band Les Fatals Picards posted in a Facebook tribute a list of qualities that made her special, including “her passionate outbursts, her love of music, her new passion for surfing and the sea, ... her ability to eat a whole bowl of Macedonians, her disapproval when we decided to change the setlist at the last moment. ...”

Natalya Muravyova, 39

A citizen of both France and Russia, she was at the concert with her husband, who survived.

Nick Alexander, 36

A Brit, he was the merchandising manager for the band Eagles of Death Metal during its European tour.

Nicolas Catinat, 37

He was a carpenter.

Nicolas Classeau

The director of IUT for a university in Paris, he was the father of three.

Olivier Vernadal, 44

He was a tax agent in Paris.

Olivier Hauducoeur, 44

He worked for a subsidiary of BNP Paribas.

Pierre Antoine Henry

The father of two young girls, he was an engineer and amateur singer.

Pierro Innocenti, 40

He was killed along with his friend and colleague Stephane Albertini. Pierro and his brother Charles were the third generation of their family to help run the famous Italian restaurant Chez Livio in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, frequented over the years by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, actress Brigitte Bardot and soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He also was a regular skydiver at Burning Man. “He always had a thousand new projects to carry out, experiences to have,” a friend told Vanity Fair Italia.

Quentin Boulenger, 29

He had graduated from a business and management school and moved to Paris.

Quentin Mourier, 29

He was a Ph.D. architecture student.

Raphaël Ruiz, 37

He was an editor for the transcription, translation and communications firm Ubiqus.

Renaud Le Guen, 29

He worked for a truck and bus company.

Richard Rammant, 53

The father of two, he belonged to a biker club and volunteered at a blues festival. He was hit several times while trying to protect his wife, who was shot twice and survived.

Romain Dunet, 28

He was an English teacher and played ukulele in a band.

Salah Emad El-Gebali, 28

He was one of two Egyptian citizens killed in the attacks.

Suzon Garrigues, 21

She was in her third year of studies in applied modern languages at the Sorbonne.

Sven Alejandro Silva Perugini

He was a citizen of Venezuela who lived in Spain and was on a visit to Paris.

Thibault Rousse Lacordaire

He was a financial controller for 13 years at the French branch of the U.S. venture capital fund Colony Capital.

Thomas Ayad, 32

He was the international product manager for Mercury Music Group.

Thomas Duperron, 30

He was communications director for La Maroquinerie, a 500-capacity Paris music venue.

Valentin Ribet, 26

A French lawyer working for Hogan Lovells, he specialized in white-collar crime. He received several degrees from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University and earned a master’s degree in international business law from the London School of Economics.

Valeria Solesin, 28

An Italian-born doctoral student at the Sorbonne, she went to the concert at the Bataclan with her boyfriend, who survived.

Vincent Detoc

He was an architect and amateur guitarist.

Yannick Minvielle, 40

The father of a 7-year-old, he was a creative director for an advertising and communications agency.

La Belle Equipe

Cédric Ginestou, 27

He was a business consultant.

Romain Feuillade, 31

He co-owned the restaurant Le Cent Kilo.

Thierry Hardouin, 41

Hardouin worked as a sub-brigadier in the district court of Bobigny, a northeastern suburb of Paris. The father of two was killed along with girlfriend while they were celebrating their anniversary at the restaurant. She has not been identified.

Véronique Geoffroy de Bourgies, 54

A former model and journalist at the magazines Madame Figaro and Men’s Vogue, Geoffroy de Bourgies founded a nonprofit organization to care for children in Madagascar after she and her husband adopted their daughter and son from there.

Victor Muñoz, 25

He was a second-year master’s student at a business college.

Le Carillon

Amine Ibnolmobarak, 29

An architect and teacher, he “was the quintessential young Muslim intellectual,” his former professor Jean Attali told CNN, “concerned with spreading the peaceful values of his religion.” He had graduated in 2012 after completing a study on the pilgrimage to Mecca, according to his college. Of Moroccan descent and a newlywed, he was having dinner with his wife, Maya Nemeta, when he died. She was shot three times and hospitalized in critical condition.

Le Petit Cambodge

Chloe Boissinot, 25

She moved to Paris from western France to be with her boyfriend and found work in a pub. He survived the attack.

Nohemi Gonzalez, 23

An industrial design student at California State University at Long Beach, and a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, she was abroad for the first time. She was about to present her project - the design of a bookstore at the Louvre - to her class.

Raphael Hilz, 28

An architect from Germany, he had been working for six months for the prestigious firm Renzo Piano.

Sébastien Proisy, 38

The international business consultant was having dinner with a prospective client when he was shot in the back. A close friend, Philip Worre, said in an interview that Proisy had an accomplished academic record, including studies in law and political science and worked for a time for the European Commission. “Above all, he was known for being truly kind, the kindest and most generous person you could imagine - his nickname was Sunshine Seb,” Worre said.

Justine Moulin, 23

She studied at Paris’s Skema Business School and planned to attend its satellite campus in Raleigh, N.C.

Stella Verry, 37

A a general practitioner and pharmacist, she worked at a small practice and was known as an affable and excellent doctor. “The doctors melted into tears” upon hearing of her death, said a colleague. “It is a terrible shock. Why Ms. Verry?”

Other venues

Nicolas Degenhardt, 37

The yoga teacher and shiatsu massage therapist was having a drink with a friend on the terrace of the bar at La Bonne Biere when he was killed.

Asta Diakite

The cousin of French midfielder Lassana Diarra, who had played in the match with Germany that evening, was a “great support, a big sister,” he said of her via Twitter. It has not been made public where she died. The soccer player, who is Muslim, added: “In the climate of terror it’s important for all of us, who are representatives of our country and its diversity, to speak up and stay united in the face of a horror which has neither color nor religion. Together we must protect, love, respect and peace.”

Sahbi Kheir-Eddine, 29

The virtuoso violinist born in Algeria came to Paris to complete his music training as a master’s student in ethnomusicology at Paris-Sorbonne University, the university president said in a statement. He was “very involved in all forms of traditional music at the university,” said President Barthélémy Jobert. “He was gunned down on his way home in the 10th arrondissement” and was one of three Sorbonne students to die.

Stéphane Hache, 52

A few days after the attacks, the restaurant worker was found dead from gunshot wounds in his apartment near the Bataclan. He is believed to have been killed by gunfire during the theater siege.

Anne-Laure Arruebo, 36, and Cecile Coudon Peccadeau de L’isle, 37, were best friends and colleagues who worked for French customs. They were having a drink together on the outdoor terrace of a bar along Rue de Charonne.

Lucie Dietrich, 37

The jewelry and graphic designer was walking in her neighborhood when she was shot at Rue de la Fontaine au Roi. She was one of six siblings. Her eldest brother, Emmanuel Dietrich, a watchmaker living in Switzerland, issued a special tricolor timepiece in a limited edition of 13 copies for his family and close friends.

Manuel Colaço Dias, 63

The native of Portugal had moved to France as a teenager and lived with his wife and two children in Paris. He was working as a chauffeur for Renault for 20 years and drove a group to the soccer friendly between France and Germany at Stade de France, where he was killed.

The names of at least eight victims have not yet been confirmed.

This story was originally published November 22, 2015 at 1:57 PM with the headline "‘There are many, many broken families’: Paris victims and their stories."