Gilles Perrault is a left-wing French enlisted writer and journalist. He attended the Coll�ge Stanislas de Paris and then studied at the Institut d'�tudes politiques, eventually becoming a lawyer, a profession he worked in for five years. After the success of his essay 'Les parachutistes', inspired by his military service in Algeria, he became a journalist and wrote articles about Nehru's India, the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the problems of African Americans in the United States. He then investigated less well-known aspects of World War II. Le Secret du jour J won a prize from the Comit� d'action de la R�sistance and was an international bestseller. L'Orchestre rouge was even more successful. In 1969 Perrault published a spy novel, Le dossier 51. In 1978, Gilles Perrault published Le Pull-over rouge, a novel in which he expressed his doubts about Christian Ranucci's guilt, a French criminal executed by guillotine on July 28, 1976. 

March 9th, 1931 in Paris (Age 93)