Henri de Turenne (19 November 1921 – 23 August 2016) was a Frenchjournalist andscreenwriter.
Henri de Turenne was born inTours.[1] The son ofArmand de Turenne, aWorld War Iflying ace, he was raised inGermany andFrench Algeria, both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work.[1]
After theSecond World War, de Turenne worked as a journalist forAgence France-Presse,Le Figaro,France Soir, andORTF, reporting fromAllied-occupied Germany, covering theKorean War and theAlgerian War, and, in 1952, winning thePrix Albert Londres.[1]
Since the mid-1960s, he worked primarily in television, notably on the FrenchGrandes Batailles series forPathé, making over a hundred documentaries.[1] He was the French producer for a documentary on theVietnam War, "Vietnam: A Television History", which won sixEmmy awards in 1984.[1] His fictional works includeLes Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde (1996), made forArte, for which he shared a7 d'Or with Michel Deutsch.[1]
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