Alain Decaux was born in 1925 in Lille, Nord, France. Born on 23 July 1925 in Lille. Studies in Lille at the lycée Faidherbe, and then in Paris at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly. Faculty of law of Paris. History courses taken at the Sorbonne,... (Full Biography Below)
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Alain Decaux was born in 1925 in Lille, Nord, France. Born on 23 July 1925 in Lille. Studies in Lille at the lycée Faidherbe, and then in Paris at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly. Faculty of law of Paris. History courses taken at the Sorbonne, for his pleasure, without the slightest concern for getting a degree. Publishes its first articles of history from 1946. His first book, Louis XVII retrouvé, in 1947. Crowned by the French Academy, and twenty-five years old, in his second book, Letizia. Attracted very early by the audio-visual, created as part of the French radio and television, in 1951 (with André Castelot, and Jean-Claude Colin-Simard, and Jean-François Chiappe), The Tribune of the Story, a weekly tv programme which will be aired without interruption until 1997. In 1957, creates (with Stellio Lorenzi and André Castelot) The camera explores time to the French Tv. This issue will continue until 1966. From 1969 to 1988, gives, on the second television channel, then Antenna 2, then on TF1, Alain Decaux raconte, issue become Alain Decaux face à l'histoire, where, each month, one image for an hour, it deals with a character or event in History. At the same time, it continues the publication of his books. He represented several plays and collaborated on films and discs – still on historical themes. He is the first president, elected in respect of the television, of the Society of authors and composers of dramatic. From June 1988 to may 1991, he was minister delegate, in charge of the Francophonie. From 1991 to 2000, he chaired the French Association of artistic action. From 1998 to 2009, he chaired the College of curators of the domain of Chantilly. Elected to the Académie française on 15 February 1979, to the chair of Jean Guéhenno (9th chair).
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