Alain Decaux
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Alain Decaux was born on 23 July 1925 in Lille, France. A historian by profession, he was elected to the Académie française
on 15 February 1979.
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
on 15 February 1979.