What is Alain Decaux?
[[File:Alain Decaux 2011.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Alain Decaux in 2011]] '''Alain Decaux''' (23 July 1925 − 27 March 2016) was a [[French people|French]] writer and historian. He was born in [[Lille]], [[France]]. He was elected to the [[Académie française]] on 15 February 1979. In 2005, he was, with others authors as [[Frédéric Beigbeder]], [[Richard Millet]] and [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]], among the [[Beirut]] Book Fair's guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly BIEL. Decaux died on 27 March 2016 in [[Paris]], France at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite web|author=Thomas Wieder |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2016/03/27/l-ecrivain-et-academicien-alain-decaux-est-mort_4890844_3246.html |title=Mort de l’académicien Alain Decaux, inimitable conteur d’Histoire |language=fr |publisher=Le Monde |date=27 March 2016 |access-date=27 March 2016}}</ref> ==Bibliography== * 1979 ''{{lang|fr|Alain Decaux raconte (vol. II)}}'' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1980 ''{{lang|fr|Alain Decaux raconte (vol. III)}}'' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1981 ''{{lang|fr|Alain Decaux raconte (vol. IV)}}'' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1981-1985 ''{{lang|fr|L’Histoire en question}}'' * 1982 ''[[Les Misérables (1982 movie)|Les Misérables, d'après Victor Hugo]]'' (screenplay, directed by [[Robert Hossein]]) * 1982 ''{{lang|fr|L’Histoire en question}}'' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 1999 ''{{lang|fr|De gaulle, celui qui a dit non}}'' (in collaboration with Alain Peyrefitte) * 1999 ''{{lang|fr|C'était le XXe siècle : De Staline à Kennedy}}'' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 2000 ''{{lang|fr|Morts pour Vichy}}'' (Librairie académique Perrin) * 2002 ''{{lang|fr|L'Avorton de Dieu. Une vie de saint Paul}}'' (Perrin) * 2002 ''{{lang|fr|C'était Bonaparte}}'' * 2005 ''{{lang|fr|Tous les personnages sont vrais}}'' (Perrin) * 2007 ''{{lang|fr|La révolution de la croix. Néron et les Chrétiens}}'' (Perrin) ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortel