Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac

1917 - 2015

country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French

occupation: official, historian, French Resistance fighter, politician, civil servant

award received: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Croix de guerre 1939–1945, Officer of Arts and Letters, Médaille de la Résistance, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Prix Gobert, Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac CBE (22 January 1917 – 8 April 2015) 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)