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Albert Ollivier
Acting
01 Mar 1915
† 18 Jul 1964
Paris, France
Biography
Albert Ollivier (1915-1964) was a French historian, author, journalist, politician and member of the French resistance. He was born on 1 March 1915 in Paris and died there on 18 July 1964. After studying law and literature in Sorbonne, then in political sciences, Albert Ollivier started reading the Nouvelle Revue française. He became Gaston Gallimard's secretary in 1937. Enlisted in 1939, he later became a radio journalist alongside Claude Roy, but soon left the Vichy radio to join the ranks of...
