Philippe Daudy (17 June 1925 – 12 March 1994) was a member of the French Resistance, a journalist, a novelist, a publisher and a businessman. An Anglophile Frenchman, he moved to England and wrote a book about the English. Origins Daudy was born on 17 June 1925 and spent his childhood in Ethiopia, where his father, Bernard Daudy, was the medical officer for the French-run Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia, but died young from a snake bite. Daudy’s mother, a great beauty, later married Hubert Jules Deschamps, the historian and sociologist who governed French Somalia, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal and ended his career in 1960 as Governor-General of the Colonies, at the peak of French colonial administration. Service in the Resistance During the Second World War, Daudy served in a Resistance network operating in and around Lyons. He was wounded in an attack on a Gestapo transport depot at Villeurbanne and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Interviewed in Marcel Ophüls's 1969 documentary on occupied France, The Sorrow and the Pity, Daudy was later to say:At its best the Resistance was the first classless society in France. The two classes became comrades in arms, sharing the same dangers, and even death. Writer After the Second World War, Daudy worked as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse, covering the Greek Civil War, the Korean War, the Far East and Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia. Daudy co-authored a leading work on the Korean War and later contributed to Thames Television’s leading television documentary history, Korea: the Unknown War. Daudy continued to write and to publish prolifically. His works included: Le Roi de Prusse (1960), a novel Neige a Capri (first published in 1960, under the pseudonym of Paul Paoli) Les Pigeons de Naples (1961, under the pseudonym of Paul Paoli) Bal a Bale (1962, under the pseudonym of Paul Paoli) L’Amour cousu d’or (1963), a novel a preface to Eugène Fromentin’s Dominique (1965) a preface to an edition of Prosper Mérimée (1964) a preface to Hamilton’s Memoires du comte de Gramont- (1965) Les Amants d’Italie (1966) Le Vagabond de Malevie (1977, under the pseudonym of Adrien Barraud) Le Criminel precautionneux (1978, under the pseudonym of Adrien Barraud) La Force du Destin (1981) Naples Histoire generale de la peinture: Le XVIIe siecle Les Anglais In 1989, Daudy wrote Les Anglais, an affectionate analysis of the English national character, which was later translated into English by