Family, Early Life, and Education

The son of an American father and a French mother, Alexandre Sheldon Duplaix has dual American and French citizenships. He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Diplômé de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris) and holds a MA in history and two predoctoral dissertations in history and political science from the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

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Academic Career as a Researcher

For twelve years until 1999, he worked as a naval analyst under contract with the French Navy before joining the naval section of French Defence Historical Service

Defence Historical Service

In France, the Defence Historical Service is the archives centre of Ministry of Defence and its armed forces. It was set up by decree in 2005....

 (Service historique de la Défense, Département Marine), located in the Château de Vincennes

Château de Vincennes

The Château de Vincennes is a massive 14th and 17th century French royal castle in the town of Vincennes, to the east of Paris, now a suburb of the metropolis.-History:...

, near Paris. Since 2001, he has lectured on naval history at the French Joint Defense Staff College (Collège Interarmées de Défense) in Paris and at the Combat Systems and Naval Weapons School near Toulon (École des systèmes de combat et armes navales).

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