Max Gallo (1932–2017)
Author of Napoléon, tome 1 : Le Chant du départ
About the Author
Max Gallo is the author of numerous biographies and essays, including works on Garibaldi, Mussolini, and Napoleon. He lives in France
Image credit: Max Gallo, le 31 janvier 2008 à l'Académie française
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Works by Max Gallo
Revolução Francesa. Às Armas, Cidadãos! 1793-1799 - Volume II. Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2009) 46 copies
Les Clés de l'histoire contemporaine : Histoire du monde de la Révolution française à nos jours en 212 épisodes (2005) 21 copies
3 13 copies
Romans : La Baie des anges - Le Palais des fêtes - La Promenade des Anglais (1982) 9 copies, 1 review
Napoléon. Il sole di Austerlitz 4 copies
César: Imperador — Author — 4 copies
Histoire du monde: De la Revolution francaise a nos jours en 212 episodes : les cles de l'histoire contemporaine (2001) 4 copies
Ég lifi 2 copies
Julij Cezar 2 copies
La grandeur du roi-soleil 2 copies
Révolution française, coffret en 2 tomes : Le Peuple et le Roi ; Aux armes, citoyens ! (2009) 2 copies
Un Pas Vers de Mer 1 copy
Un crime tres ordinaire. 1 copy
Cesar Imperator 1 copy
Garibaldi 1 copy
Noc dlouhých nožů 1 copy
L´AFFAIRE D´ÉTHIOPIE 1 copy
LA MAFIA 1 copy
Italia lui Mussolini 1 copy
Los Romanos 1 copy
Le pouvoir a vif 1 copy
1942 le jour se lève 1 copy
Napoleon. Tom 2 1 copy
L'album De Gaulle 1 copy
Les bâtisseurs 1 copy
Ils venaient de la montagne 1 copy
Zátoka andělů 1 copy
Voltaire 1 copy
L'Europe contre l'Europe: Entretiens avec Eric Fournet et Olivier Spinelli (Documents) (French Edition) (1992) 1 copy
Napoleon. Tom 1 1 copy
Gallo 1 copy
La Baie Des Anges, Intégrale. La Baie Des Anges ; Le Palais Des Fêtes ; la Promenade Des Anglais (2019) 1 copy
Rare Max Gallo / The Night Of The Long Knives June 29-30 1934 1997 - NY: Da Capo Press, 1997 (1997) 1 copy
CÉSAR - IMPERADOR (PVL92) 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Gallo, Max
- Legal name
- Gallo, Max
- Other names
- Laugham, Max
Gallway, David - Birthdate
- 1932-01-07
- Date of death
- 2017-07-18
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Faculté des lettres et institut d'études politique, Paris
Lycée du Parc Imperial - Occupations
- professor of history
journalist
historian
biographer
politician - Organizations
- Académie française (2007)
- Awards and honors
- Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur‎
Grand officier de l'ordre national du Mérite (2013) - Relationships
- Nouschi, André (Directeur de thèse)
- Short biography
- Max Gallo was born to an Italian immigrant family in Nice, France. He is first and foremost a writer, having begun his career as a teacher, then working as a journalist and becoming an historian, television writer, and popular novelist. He is also the author of several nonfiction works, including biographies of Charles De Gaulle, Caesar, Napoleon and Victor Hugo, often published as multi-volumes. He was a Communist until 1956; in 1974, he joined the Socialist Party, and was named to various posts in the French government under François Mitterand. Max Gallo was elected to the Academie française in 2007.
- Cause of death
- Maladie de Parkinson
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Places of residence
- Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Place of death
- Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
- Burial location
- Cimetière communald Spéracèdes, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Map Location
- France
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A very detailed examination of the Nazi purge of 1934, done in a narrative style. Somehow both mind numbingly boring and impossible to put down. My only real criticism is it's relative lack of detail on the background of the ideological dispute within fascism that precipitated the crisis. Otherwise an excellent and compelling read.
Loin de l Histoire officielle, des manuels de notre enfance, voici la Révolution française vécue de l intérieur. Un récit exaltant et fondateur. Révolution Française : et s il fallait la démaquiller ? Afin de comprendre comment un peuple, un Roi qui veulent réformer la France, qui rêvent de Vertu, de Liberté, d Égalité, de Fraternité, sont emportés par la violence. Pourquoi la Terreur au lieu de la Vertu ? Pourquoi la Révolution au lieu de la Réforme ? Max Gallo reconstitue show more jour après jour les événements, il suit les acteurs, scrute l opinion des citoyens anonymes, de ceux qui s enthousiasment puis désespèrent, abandonnent les clubs révolutionnaires, et accablés voient se dresser la guillotine. Révolution Française : en suivant Max Gallo, on voit le pouvoir se décomposer, le royaume le plus admiré d Europe se défaire, un monde nouveau apparaître, sur les ruines de l Ancien régime. Mais entre ces deux mondes il y a, écrit Chateaubriand, ' un fleuve de sang '. On rêvait d une nation unie ? Et ce sont les massacres, les haines, et pour finir Bonaparte. On rêvait de paix ? Et c est la guerre. On acclamait Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette et ils montent les escaliers de l échafaud, et l on montre leurs têtes tranchées au peuple. Révolution Française : Max Gallo, loin de l histoire officielle et de l histoire maquillée, nous fait revivre de l intérieur ces années de passion. Un récit exaltant et fondateur du séisme majeur de notre Histoire. show less
[La baie des anges] by [[Max Gallo]], a multi-generational family saga of 3 brothers, who have recently become orphans who move from Piedmont in Italy over the mountains to Nice on the Mediterranean coast late in the 19th century. The oldest one, Carlo, 28 years old, has ruthless ambition, and uses devious means to fund the start-up of a construction empire. The middle brother, Vincente, 18 years old, sticks to his proletarian roots and becomes a coach driver and later chauffeur at the home show more of the rich people, the Merani family, who take in the two youngest brothers as hitchhikers in the arduous trek over the mountains. The youngest brother, Luigi, 8 years old, becomes a singer and a surrogate baby/child to the Merani family. He eventually becomes the manager of a brother/tavern. Carlo's two children don't seem to struggle too much with their destiny as upper class, but the two sons of Vincente and Denise, Dante and Antoine, espouse ideals of socialism and/or communism, and sacrifice ambitions and family safety to fight against the ingrained fascism in France. The two daughters of Vincente and Denise, Louise and Violette, fall in love with men who either die in conflicts such as World War I and the Spanish Civil War, or who are regularly thrown in prison by crypto-fascist governments.
I kept wanting to say to all the characters during all their travails from the World War I through to the retribution of the Collaborators during the Petain regime, and into the debacles of Indo-China and Algeria, "hold on, socialism is coming, just wait until the 60s and 70s, but that outcome is left mostly to one's imagination, because the book ends without giving such a denouement. I checked on Amazon and Abebooks and found no English translation. May be available in French only. My french is too poor to try to write a review in that language. show less
I kept wanting to say to all the characters during all their travails from the World War I through to the retribution of the Collaborators during the Petain regime, and into the debacles of Indo-China and Algeria, "hold on, socialism is coming, just wait until the 60s and 70s, but that outcome is left mostly to one's imagination, because the book ends without giving such a denouement. I checked on Amazon and Abebooks and found no English translation. May be available in French only. My french is too poor to try to write a review in that language. show less
A hopeless novel/biography stuffed full of French glory, destiny, panache, style and ignoring Napoleon as a source of trouble for the rest of Europe. When will the French start to take a rational look at this person?
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