Alain Decaux
French historian (1925-2016)
Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a French writer and historian. He was born in Lille, France. He was elected to the Académie française on 15 February 1979.
In 2005, he was, with others authors as Frédéric Beigbeder, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, among the Beirut Book Fair's guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly BIEL.
Decaux died on 27 March 2016 in Paris, France at the age of 90.[1]
Bibliography
change- 1979 Alain Decaux raconte (vol. II) (Librairie académique Perrin)
- 1980 Alain Decaux raconte (vol. III) (Librairie académique Perrin)
- 1981 Alain Decaux raconte (vol. IV) (Librairie académique Perrin)
- 1981-1985 L’Histoire en question
- 1982 Les Misérables, d'après Victor Hugo (screenplay, directed by Robert Hossein)
- 1982 L’Histoire en question (Librairie académique Perrin)
- 1999 De gaulle, celui qui a dit non (in collaboration with Alain Peyrefitte)
- 1999 C'était le XXe siècle : De Staline à Kennedy (Librairie académique Perrin)
- 2000 Morts pour Vichy (Librairie académique Perrin)
- 2002 L'Avorton de Dieu. Une vie de saint Paul (Perrin)
- 2002 C'était Bonaparte
- 2005 Tous les personnages sont vrais (Perrin)
- 2007 La révolution de la croix. Néron et les Chrétiens (Perrin)
References
change- ↑ Thomas Wieder (27 March 2016). "Mort de l'académicien Alain Decaux, inimitable conteur d'Histoire" (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
Other websites
change- L'Académie française (in French)