Hervé Paillet (born 1968) is a French actor and

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born with atrophied legs. He is the fifth child of his family. His legs were amputated when he was three years old, and he uses a wheelchair. Eventually he learned to run with his arms and became a weightlifter. As a teenager he won a silver medal in weightlifting at the

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. He participated in two more Paralympic Games in 1992 and 1996 as a powerlifter. In both 1994 and 1995 he won a French weightlifting championship. Paillet is married and he has two daughters.

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* 1968 births French male actors French amputees 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters 21st-century French male artists Living people Paralympic weightlifters for France Weightlifters at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Paralympic powerlifters for France Powerlifters at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Powerlifters at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for France Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in weightlifting {{France-weightlifting-bio-stub