Joseph Kessel

Joseph Kessel was born on 10 February 1898 in Argentina, the son of a doctor who had come from the Russian Empire. He spent part of his childhood in Orenburg, then his family settled in France in 1908. An airman during the First World War, he became a leading reporter and travelled across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and America. During the Second World War, he joined Free France in London and wrote with his nephew Maurice Druon the French words of the Chant des partisans. Elected to the Académie française, he died on 23 July 1979 at Avernes.

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• NovelThe LionLe LionJoseph Kessel · 1958Literature