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هنري كورييل: رجل من نسيج خاص
رجل من نسيج خاص لجيل بيرو كتاب يسرد نضال الزعيم الاممى هنرى كورييل وما قدمه كورييل لمصر والجزائر ومجهوداته للقضية الفلسطنية وكل حركات التحرر الوطنى فى العالم وبالاخص فى هذا الكتاب الجزء الاكبر الذى يستحوذ على مايقارب من نصف الكتاب هو مصر ونضاله فى مصر ومساعداته ومجهوداته التى قدمها لمصر وعندما اخذ منه الجنسية المصرية وتم طرده رفض اخذ اى جنسية اخرى وعاش اكثر من 32 عاما عديم الجنسية حتى يوم اغتياله 4 مايو 78 .
451 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Gilles Perrault
98 books32 followersPseudonym of Jacques Peyroles, a left-wing French enlisted writer and journalist. He attended the Collège Stanislas de Paris and then studied at the Institut d'études politiques, eventually becoming a lawyer, a profession he worked in for five years.
After the success of his essay 'Les parachutistes' (1961), inspired by his military service in Algeria, he became a journalist and wrote articles about Nehru's India, the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the problems of African Americans in the United States. He then investigated less well-known aspects of World War II.
Le Secret du jour J (1964) (Secrets of D-Day, 1974) won a prize from the Comité d'action de la Résistance and was an international bestseller. L'Orchestre rouge (1967) was even more successful. In 1969 Perrault published a spy novel, Le dossier 51. In 1978, Gilles Perrault published Le Pull-over rouge, a novel in which he expressed his doubts about Christian Ranucci's guilt (murderer of an 8 years old girl), a French criminal executed by guillotine on July 28, 1976. He was condemned twice for his claims and papers about this case: in 1990 for having talked in a TV-program of "abuse of authority" about the policemen in charge of the investigation (fined 40,000 francs to each person defamed at first instance, and 70,000 francs to each of the five plaintiffs on appeal, as well as the presenter); and in 2008 he and his publisher Fayard were found guilty of defamation toward the Marseille police in the book L'Ombre de Christian Ranucci (fined 5,000 euros and his editor an equal sum, a decision confirmed on appeal in 2009 and granted 10,000 euros in damages to each of the four policemen defamed).
In 1990 Perrault published Notre ami le roi (Our Friend the King, 1993) about the regime and human rights abuses of Hassan II, at the time king of Morocco who had until then been reported positively because of his close relations with the Western world. Perrault's book Le Garçon aux yeux gris (2001) was adapted by André Téchiné for the film Les Égarés.
After the success of his essay 'Les parachutistes' (1961), inspired by his military service in Algeria, he became a journalist and wrote articles about Nehru's India, the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the problems of African Americans in the United States. He then investigated less well-known aspects of World War II.
Le Secret du jour J (1964) (Secrets of D-Day, 1974) won a prize from the Comité d'action de la Résistance and was an international bestseller. L'Orchestre rouge (1967) was even more successful. In 1969 Perrault published a spy novel, Le dossier 51. In 1978, Gilles Perrault published Le Pull-over rouge, a novel in which he expressed his doubts about Christian Ranucci's guilt (murderer of an 8 years old girl), a French criminal executed by guillotine on July 28, 1976. He was condemned twice for his claims and papers about this case: in 1990 for having talked in a TV-program of "abuse of authority" about the policemen in charge of the investigation (fined 40,000 francs to each person defamed at first instance, and 70,000 francs to each of the five plaintiffs on appeal, as well as the presenter); and in 2008 he and his publisher Fayard were found guilty of defamation toward the Marseille police in the book L'Ombre de Christian Ranucci (fined 5,000 euros and his editor an equal sum, a decision confirmed on appeal in 2009 and granted 10,000 euros in damages to each of the four policemen defamed).
In 1990 Perrault published Notre ami le roi (Our Friend the King, 1993) about the regime and human rights abuses of Hassan II, at the time king of Morocco who had until then been reported positively because of his close relations with the Western world. Perrault's book Le Garçon aux yeux gris (2001) was adapted by André Téchiné for the film Les Égarés.
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July 16, 2025
Bouquin sur un militant passionné et attendrissant que je découvre en 2025. Son histoire éclaire sur bien des conjectures historiques, relatives a l'Égypte, la deuxième guerre mondiale, la guerre froide et la raconte à travers des épopées familiales et communautaires transgenerationnelles. Je mets 5 étoiles pour le style narratif de Perrault et son travail considérable d'enquête. Hommages a Gilles et a Henri.
October 22, 2008
Suite à un excellent documentaire sur Planète, j'ai emprunté Un Homme à part de Gilles Perrault (Barrault, 1984). Gilles Perrault y traite de la vie et du meurtre le 4 mai 1978 d'Henri Curiel, champion du tiersmondisme, qui a tenté d'inciter Palestiniens et Israéliens à s'asseoir à la même table et .
Le Point l'avait décrit comme un traître à sa patrie, un agent du KGB, un terroriste. Gilles Perrault décrit le parcours de cet homme passionnant, fils d'un banquier juif égyptien. Il avait oeuvré au sein du parti Communiste égyptien avant de devoir quitter son pays en 1950.
Il avait soutenu les indépendantistes algériens, ce qui explique à quel point il était peu populaire dans certains milieux en France. Cet essai est passionnant, comme la plupart des travaux de Perrault.
Le Point l'avait décrit comme un traître à sa patrie, un agent du KGB, un terroriste. Gilles Perrault décrit le parcours de cet homme passionnant, fils d'un banquier juif égyptien. Il avait oeuvré au sein du parti Communiste égyptien avant de devoir quitter son pays en 1950.
Il avait soutenu les indépendantistes algériens, ce qui explique à quel point il était peu populaire dans certains milieux en France. Cet essai est passionnant, comme la plupart des travaux de Perrault.
July 31, 2011
The most complete biography of Henri Curiel
March 19, 2013
A comprehensive book about the life and activities of Henri Curiel, one of the mysterious and disputable personality who contributed a lot in the modern history of Egypt.
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