Henri de Turenne

Henri de Turenne 19 November 1921 23 August 2016 is a French journalist and screenwriter He was born in Tours The son of Armand de Turenne a World War I flying ace he was raised in Germany and French Algeria both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work After the Second World War de Turenne worked as a journalist for Agence FrancePresse Le Figaro France Soir and ORTF reporting from Alliedoccupied Germany covering the Korean War and the Algerian War and in 1952 winning the Prix Albert Londres Since the mid1960s he worked primarily in television notably on the French Grandes Batailles series for Pathé making over a hundred documentaries He won an Emmy in 1982 for a documentary on the Vietnam War His fictional works include Les Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde 1996 made for Arte for which he shared a 7 dOr with Michel Deutsch Source Article Henri de Turenne writer from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30