Alain Decaux

Alain Decaux
Alain Decaux in 2011
Born(1925-07-23)23 July 1925
Lille, France
Died27 March 2016(2016-03-27) (aged 90)
Paris, France
OccupationsHistorian, writer
Known forMember of the Académie française

Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a French historian. 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).

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  1. ↑ Thomas Wieder (27 March 2016). "Mort de l'académicien Alain Decaux, inimitable conteur d'Histoire" (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Improvisation so piano, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Ed., 2017, p. 277. ISBN 978 2 35055 228 6