French writer and scriptwriter
André Castelot, born André Storms (23 January 1911, Antwerp – 18 July 2004, Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French writer and scriptwriter born in Belgium. He was the son of the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas and Gabrielle Storms-Castelot (née Gabrielle Alice Castelot), and the brother of the film actor Jacques Castelot. He wrote more than one hundred books, mostly biographies of famous people.
Selected works
- Louis XVII. L'énigme résolue (1947) - about Louis XVII
- Le mystère de Louis XVII (1953)
- Marie-Antoinette d'après des documents inédits (1953); trans. Marie Antoinette (1957) - about Marie Antoinette
- King of Rome: A Biography of Napoleon's Tragic Son (trans., 1960) - about Napoleon II
- Joséphine (1961) - about Josephine de Beauharnais
- Paris: The Turbulent City 1783–1871 (trans., 1962)
- Les Grandes Heures de Napoléon (6 vols., 1964)
- Histoire de Napoléon Bonaparte (10 vols., 1969); trans. Napoleon (1971) - about Napoleon Bonaparte
- Napoléon III et le second empire (6 vols., 1975) - about Napoleon III
- Grande histoire illustrée de Napoléon (9 vols., 1989)
- Fouché: Le double jeu (1990) - about Joseph Fouché
Adaptations
