- Married the Algerian FLN member, Djamila Bouhared who, as a lawyer, he defended and saved from the death penalty. Was later the lawyer for Klaus Barbie and other famous people.
- Born in Thailand from a Vietnamese mother and a French father, a doctor who was at that time, French consul in Thailand, Jacques Vergès lived his youth in the island of La Réunion where his twin brother Paul became an important member of the communist party and is now a French senator for La Réunion.
- His twin brother Paul became an important member of the communist party and later a French senator for La Réunion died there on 12 November 2016.
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