Alain Decaux
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Known For: Writing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: July 23, 1925
Day of Death: March 27, 2016 (91 years old)
Place of Birth: Lille, Nord, France
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 3.0.