Alain Decaux

Born

1925-07-23

Died

2016-03-27

Birthplace

Lille, Nord, France

Biography

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). Source: Article "Alain Decaux" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.