Andre Castelot

Andre Castelot , of his true name Andre Storms , the January 23rd 1911 with Antwerp in Belgium - July 18th 2004 with Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a Historien and Scénariste French. He is wire of the painter Maurice Chabas and Gabrielle Storms-Castelot and brother of the movie actor Jacques Castelot.

He made his studies in Paris, and took the name of his mother, Gabrielle Castelot, a Frenchwoman, itself woman of letters, who initiated it with the history by visits with the Château of Versailles. According to the testimony of a colleague, it is a man who was “very generous, modest and nice. And which loved the young people, which is rare in this medium”.

During the Occupation, he collaborates, as a dramatic criticism, with the sheaf , political newspaper and Vichyist arts person founded by Alphonse of Chateaubriant. Collaborator convinced, Alphonse of Chateaubriant is condemned to the Libération, but not André Castelot.

Director and founder in 1947 of the collection “Presence of the History” (with the academic Bookstore Perrin), André Castelot liked to be defined as “man of letters and journalist since 1935”, had collaborated in many daily newspapers and periodicals like Le Figaro , the free Midi , Historia or Histoire Magazine . He wrote especially in the basement of his residence of countryside with Port-Death, a village of the the Eure near to Gaillon.

Author of more than sixty-five biographies and historical studies on the great figures of the history, particularly those of 16th, it had, at the sides of his accomplice and close friend the historian Alain Decaux, Co-founded and by-product in 1951, the weekly radio broadcast of France Inter “the Platform of the History”, with a success of listening ever contradicted until his end in 1997. On television national, the two historians had also presented, of 1956 with 1966, the series " Énigmes" then the camera explores time. He had also written spectacles “its and light”, in particular for Chambord and Compiegne, and he had presented in 1984 on the scene of the theater of the Palais Royal an evocation of “François Ier the Splendid one”. He had also collaborated with the director and actor Robert Hossein for Jesus was his name and I was called Marie-Antoinette .

After a patient seeks, it will discover, in an attic of Vienna, a trunk containing some 9 000 letters addressed to the empress Marie-Louise, woman of Napoleon i and mother of the Eaglet. Officer of the Legion of honor, commander of the National order of the Merit and about Léopold of Belgium, it had received many distinctions, in particular, in 1984, the Grand Prix of History of the French Academy for the whole of his work.

He is member of the support group of the movement the Unit capétienne, where one finds the names of Marcel Jullian, Reynald Secher, Gonzague Saint-Breaking, Jean Dutourd, Georges Bordonove.

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