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He was born the son of Sonia and Emmanuel Weber, a well-to-do industrialist.
At the age of ten ( 10 ) his parents hired a private tutor.
But the tutor did not stay long.
From this age of 10 Weber was already reading The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas, adventure novels by Karl Frederich May, poetry by Victor Hugo and Homer.
He was also reading George Sand, Jules Verne and " every cheap paperback I could afford ".
At age 12, he was sent to boarding school in Herne Bay, in southeastern England, and later to Ashville College, Harrogate.
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