Alain Decaux | |
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Born | Lille, France | 23 July 1925
Died | 27 March 2016 Paris, France | (aged 90)
Nationality | French |
Occupation(s) | Historian, writer |
Known for | Member of the Académie française |
Alain Decaux (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a French historian.[1] 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).[2]