Raoul Girardet | |
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Born | 6 October 1917 |
Died | 18 September 2013 | (aged 95)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Historian |
Raoul Girardet (6 October 1917 – 18 September 2013) was a French historian who specialized in military societies, colonialism and French nationalism. As a young man he was involved with the right-wing Action Française movement. He was not antisemitic, but was passionately nationalistic. During World War II he supported the French Resistance. Later he supported the OAS struggle against giving independence to Algeria.