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Philippe Victor Diolé (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, August 24, 1908 –Paris, November 12, 1977) was a French author and undersea explorer.

Diolé was born inSaint-Maur-des-Fossés,Val-de-Marne,^[1]France, son of Marcel (ajurist) and Elizabeth (Legrand) Diolé. He received aLicence en Droit (alaw degree) from theUniversity of Paris in 1928. He married Marguerite Monsenergue on July 6, 1953.

WithJacques-Yves Cousteau he co-authored 7 of the 8-volume seriesThe Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1970-1975) and co-authoredThe Whale (1987), which was released posthumously.

In 1977, shortly before his death, Philippe Diolé was co-founder in Paris of the LFDA foundation (fr:La Fondation Droit Animal), aimed to defendanimal rights.^[2]

• 1949:Sous les plis du drapeau noir ('Under the Black Flag', not translated into English)
• 1951:L'Aventure sous-marine (The Undersea Adventure, 1953)
• 1952:Promenades d'archéologie sous-marine (4,000 Years Under the Sea: Excursions in Undersea Archeology, 1954)
• 1953:Les Portes de la mer (The Gates of the Sea: The Seas of Sicily, 1955)
• 1954:L'Exploration sous-marine (Underwater Exploration: A History, 1954)
• 1954:Au bord de la terre : Fragments de la vie d'un plongeur ('Beside the Seaside: Fragments of a Diver's Life', not translated into English)
• 1954:Les Paysages de la mer, de la surface a l'abîme ('The Sea Landscapes: From the Surface to the Abyss', not translated into English)
• 1955:Le Plus Beau Désert du monde (1956 in the USA:Sahara Adventure. 1959 in the UK:The Most Beautiful Desert of All)
• 1956:Dans le Fezzan inconnu ('In the Unknown Fezzan', not translated into English)
• 1956:Le Trésor du banc d'argent ('The Treasure of the Silver Bank', not translated into English)
• 1958:Du ciel à la stratosphère ('From the Sky to the Stratosphere', not translated into English)
• 1959:L'Eau profonde : Roman ('The Deep Water: A Novel', not translated into English)
• 1963:L'Okapi: Roman Editions Gallimard (Okapi Fever: A Novel, 1965,Viking Press, Translation: Peter Green)
• 1965:Chasse d'Afrique ('Big Game in Africa', not translated into English)
• In the collectionThe Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (Flammarion, 1970–75) seven volumes of the whole collection were co-authored by Diolé and simultaneously published in English and French (Cousteau co-authored the first volume withhis son Philippe ; all other seven volumes were co-authored with Diolé):

1. 1970:Les Requins (The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea)
2. 1971:Un Trésor englouti (Diving for Sunken Treasure)
3. 1971:La Vie et la mort des coraux (Life and Death in a Coral Sea)
4. 1972:Nos Amies les baleines (The Whale: Mighty Monarch of the Sea)
5. 1973:Trois Aventures de la Calypso (Three Adventures: Galápagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes)
6. 1973:Pieuvres, la fin d'un malentendu (Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence)
7. 1974:Compagnons de plongée (Diving Companions: Sea Lion, Elephant Seal, Walrus)
8. 1975:Les Dauphins et la liberté (Dolphins)

• 1974:Les Animaux malades de l'homme (The Errant Ark... Man's Relationship With Animals, 1974)
• 1975:Lettres au Président de la République sur la mort des Français ('Letters to the President of the Republic concerning the Death of the French', not translated into English)
• 1976:Les Oubliés du Pacifique (The Forgotten People of the Pacific, 1977)
• 1976:Falco, chef plongeur de la Calypso (The Memoirs of Falco: Chief Diver of the Calypso, 1977), withAlbert Falco
• 1977:L'Aventure de l'homme dans la mer ('The Adventure of Mankind into the Sea', not translated into English)
• 1987:The Whale (with Cousteau, posthumous)

• Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced inBiography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. Document Number: H1000025732

• Biography of Philippe Diolé(in French)

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