What is René Ballet?
[[File:R. Ballet.jpg|thumb|Ballet in {{Circa|2015}}]] '''René Ballet''' (1928 &ndash; 2 January 2017) was a [[French people|French]] journalist and author. He was a [[communist]] and a member of the [[French Communist Party]]. He started his career as a civil servant in [[Paris]] in 1961. He was first a civil servant in [[finance]] and later in [[national education]]. He was the writer of 14 novels and 35 essays. In 1978, he started working for the communist newspaper ''[[L'Humanité]]''. Ballet was born in [[Saint-Étienne]]. He grew up in [[Grenoble]]. He joined the [[French Resistance]] during [[World War II]]. He lived in [[Vanves]]. Ballet died on 2 January 2017 at the age of 88.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/vanves-92170/vanves-citoyen-d-honneur-de-la-ville-le-journaliste-rene-ballet-est-mort-03-01-2017-6521136.php|title=Vanves : citoyen d’honneur de la ville, le journaliste René Ballet est mort|work=Le Parisien|language=fr|date=3 January 2017|access-date=4 January 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ballet, Rene}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:French communists]] [[Category:French journalists]] [[Category:French novelists]] [[Category:People from Grenoble]] [[Category:Writers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]] {{Bio-stub}}