Henri de Turenne (writer)
Introduction '''Henri de Turenne''' (19 November 1921 – 23 August 2016) was a French journalist and screenwriter.
Life and career Henri de Turenne 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 France-Presse, Le Figaro, France Soir, and ORTF, reporting from Allied-occupied Germany, covering the Korean War and the Algerian War, and, in 1952, winning the Prix Albert Londres. Since the mid-1960s, 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 d'Or'' with Michel Deutsch.
Filmography * ''Les Grandes Batailles'' (series: 1967–1975)* ''Les évasions célèbres'' (1972)* ''Les Grandes Batailles du Passé'' (series: 1973–1977)* ''Le Loup blanc'' (1977)* ''Les Grands déserts'' (1981)* ''Fort Saganne'' (1984)* ''Sixième gauche'' (1990) (TV)* ''Maigret et le fantôme'' (1994) (TV)* ''Les alsaciens - ou les deux Mathilde'' (series: 1996–1997) (TV)* ''La ferme du crocodile'' (1996) (TV)* ''L'Algérie des chimères'' (2001) (TV)* ''Apocalypse - La 2e guerre mondiale'' (2009) (TV)
Bibliography * Turenne, Henri de; Ducher, François; Deutsch, Michel; (1996). ''Les Alsaciens, ou, Les deux Mathilde''. Paris: Jean-Claude Lattès. * Turenne, Henri de; Soulé, Robert; (2000). ''L'Algérie des chimères''. Paris : Jean-Claude Lattès.
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