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Author photo. Max Gallo, le 31 janvier 2008 à l'Académie française, à l'issue de son discours de réception en présence du président Nicolas Sarkozy

Max Gallo, le 31 janvier 2008 à l'Académie française, à l'issue de son discours de réception en présence du président Nicolas Sarkozy

Max Gallo (1932–2017)

Author of Napoléon, tome 1 : Le Chant du départ

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Max Gallo is the author of numerous biographies and essays, including works on Garibaldi, Mussolini, and Napoleon. He lives in France — biography from The Poster in History
The Poster in History 187 copies, 1 review
Napoleon 3 : the emperor of kings 141 copies, 2 reviews
The Night of Long Knives 126 copies, 7 reviews
Immortal of St. Helena 110 copies, 1 review
Cesar Imperator 68 copies, 3 reviews
Re Sole 39 copies, 2 reviews
Napoleón 30 copies
1941 28 copies
La chambre ardente 16 copies, 1 review
Robespierre 16 copies
Paris vaut bien une messe 15 copies, 1 review
Garibaldi (Author) 13 copies, 2 reviews
Les Rois sans visage 13 copies, 1 review
Le Condottiere 12 copies
La baie des anges 11 copies, 1 review
Fier d'être français 10 copies, 1 review
La Promenade Des Anglais 10 copies, 1 review
Francois 1er 9 copies, 1 review
La chute de l'Empire romain 8 copies, 1 review
1918, la terrible victoire 6 copies, 1 review
L'ambitieuse 6 copies
France: Roman 6 copies
Belle époque 5 copies
Le Fils de Klara H. (Author) 4 copies
Ég lifi 2 copies
Espartaco 2 copies, 1 review
Voltaire 1 copy
Gallo 1 copy

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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.
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