Henri Grimal


Henri Grimal was a 20th-century French writer and historian, a specialist of the British Empire, the Commonwealth of Nations and the history of decolonisation. Agrégé d'histoire, he taught at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly, the lycée Henri-IV, the lycée Louis-le-Grand, the Sorbonne, as well as at Princeton University.

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Henri Grimal also published in 2005 the first volume of his souvenirs: L'Envol, at Presses de l'université des Sciences sociales de Toulouse, an account of his young years in the region of his native village in the 1920s.