Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac

French historian (1917-2015) · France · Writers · Died at 98

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Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac CBE was a French journalist, a member of the French Resistance and a historian. During World War II he directed the Free French propaganda radio broadcasts to Europe. After the war he helped create France's state-owned publishing house, La Documentation Française.

A life in dates

2015Died8 April 2015Grand Cross of the Legion of HonourAward2010Grand Prix GobertAwardPrix du Sénat du livre d'histoireAward1997Prix d'AcadémieAward1917Born22 January 1917

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Awards

Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour2015

Grand Prix Gobert2010

Prix du Sénat du livre d'histoire2010

Prix d'Académie1997

Croix de guerre 1939-1945

Officer of Arts and Letters

Resistance Medal

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France

In common with Jean-Louis

Ivan JablonkaBoth received Prix du Sénat du livre d'histoire

André-Jean FestugièreBoth received Prix d'Académie

François PiétriBoth received Grand Prix Gobert

Marcelle AuclairBoth received Prix d'Académie

Writers from France 2

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Jacques Fieschi44.6

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France