Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac
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Jean-Louis CrĂ©mieux-Brilhac CBE (22 January 1917 â 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. CrĂ©mieux was born to a middle class Jewish family in the Colombes suburb of Paris. His political awareness was raised in high school by his uncle Benjamin CrĂ©mieux (1888-1944), a literary critic. Through his uncle, CrĂ©mieux met and was influenced by the anti-authoritarian surrealism of AndrĂ© Malraux and the liberal internationalism of Stefan Zweig. He graduated from the LycĂ©e Condorcet in 1933. But it was first during a school vacation in 1931 that he visited Germany and in subsequent trips saw first-hand the work of the Nazi Party. In 1935 he joined, and became the youngest member of the ComitĂ© de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes (CVIA) which spearheaded the unification of left-wing politics in France. During the Second World War he served as General Charles de Gaulle's 'propaganda chief in London'. Source: Article "Jean-Louis CrĂ©mieux-Brilhac" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
