Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979

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found: Courrière, Y. Joseph Kessel ... c1985:t.p. (Joseph Kessel) p. 925, etc. (d. 7-23-79)

found: English Wikipedia website, viewed Oct. 19, 2016:(Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898--23 July 1979) was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand officer of the Legion of Honour. Kessel was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Litvak doctor. From 1905 to 1908, Joseph Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France in 1908. He studied in the Lycée Masséna, Nice and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator. He was also an aviator during the Second World War, assigned to the Free French 342 "Lorraine" bomber Squadron of the Royal Air Force, with Romain Gary, who was also a talented French novelist. Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967). In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. The song became one of the anthems of Free French Forces during the Second World War. Joseph Kessel died on July 23, 1979 in Avernes, Val-d'Oise)