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Alain Decaux

1925 - 2016

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Decaux is the 5,719th most popular writer (down from 5,424th in 2019), the 4,911th most popular biography from France (down from 4,720th in 2019) and the 620th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Alain Decaux ranks 5,719 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexei Panshin, Memnon of Heraclea, Jan Lechoń, Melih Cevdet Anday, Paul Mattick, and Charles Le Goffic. After him are Evgeny Vladimirovich Chetvergov, Vincenzo Consolo, Erwin Strittmatter, Yuri Samarin, Horst Faas, and J. Bernlef.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Alain Decaux ranks 449. Before him are Fulvio Nesti, Lilyan Chauvin, Yuriy Lituyev, Stepas Butautas, Arne Månsson, and Josep Pintat Solans. After him are Peter Seeberg, Elaine Stritch, Guru Dutt, Otto Arosemena, Gunnar Birkerts, and Jimmy Dickinson. Among people deceased in 2016, Alain Decaux ranks 451. Before him are Bob Baetens, Fyvush Finkel, Armando Tobar, Antonina Seredina, Richard Davalos, and Gisela May. After him are Wiesław Rudkowski, James Joseph Dresnok, Klaus Siebert, Rafael Iriondo, Tom M. Apostol, and Alexis Arquette.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Decaux ranks 4,911 out of 6,770. Before him are Elizabeth Debicki (1990), Nathalie Stutzmann (1965), Samuel Le Bihan (1965), Anthony Réveillère (1979), Charles Le Goffic (1863), and Thierry Tusseau (1958). After him are Jean-Jacques Guissart (1927), Sébastien Bourdais (1979), Jean Boiteux (1933), Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau (1850), Pascal Hervé (1964), and Bertrand Bonello (1968).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alain Decaux ranks 620. Before him are Eugène Dabit (1898), Jean-Jacques Schuhl (1941), Olivier Rolin (1947), Delphine de Vigan (1966), Jean-Paul Dubois (1950), and Charles Le Goffic (1863). After him are Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau (1850), Dominique Bona (1953), Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884), Roger Vercel (1894), André Chamson (1900), and Robert Sabatier (1923).

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