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Alain Decaux
French historian

Alain Decaux

Alain Decaux
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Intro French historian
Was Journalist Television presenter Radio personality Writer Essayist Biographer Screenwriter Actor Television producer Film actor
From France
Field Film, TV, Stage & Radio Journalism Literature Science
Gender male
Birth 23 July 1925, Lille, France
Death 27 March 2016, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, France (aged 90 years)
Star sign Leo
Family
Mother: Louise Tiprez
Father: Francis Decaux
Spouse: Micheline Pelletier
Children: Laurent Decaux
Education
Lycée Faidherbe
Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
Paris Law Faculty
Faculty of Arts of Paris
Awards
Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit  
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎  
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour  
Commander of the Order of Prince Henry  
Commander of the National Order of the Lion  
Order of Valour  
Montyon Prize  
Pierre Lafue Prize 2010
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Biography

Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a French historian by profession. He was elected to the Académie française on 15 February 1979.

In 2005, he was, with others authors as Frédéric Beigbeder, Mohamed Kacimi, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, among the Beirut Book Fair's main guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly (BIEL).

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 13 Apr 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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