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Dominique Desanti

Dominique Desanti

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31 Aug 1914
08 Apr 2011
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Biography

Dominique Desanti (1920 – April 8, 2011) was a French journalist, novelist, educator and biographer. The daughter of a Russian immigrant, she was born Dominique Persky in Paris. She served in the French Resistance during the German occupation. She was a member of the French Communist Party from 1943 until 1956. Desanti was a correspondent for L'Humanité in the years following World War II. She also taught university in the United States. Desanti was married to the philosopher Jean-Toussaint De...

Also Known As

Anne Persky

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