Henri Grimal (19 July 1910 – 3 November 2012) was a 20th-century French writer and historian, a specialist of the British Empire, the Commonwealth of Nations and the history of decolonisation. Agrégé d'histoire (1939), he taught at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly, the lycée Henri-IV, the lycée Louis-le-Grand, the Sorbonne, as well as at Princeton University.
Works (selection) 1948: Derrière les barricades, Éditions Bourrelier 1956: Agricola, de Tacite, Éditions Hachette 1962: Le Commonwealth, Presses universitaires de France 1962: Histoire du Commonwealth britannique, Presses universitaires de France 1965: La Décolonisation, 1919-1963, Librairie Armand Colin, prix Broquette-Gonin of the Académie Française (1966) (reprints in 1967, 1970, 1985 and 1999 , and in 1978 by Westview Press: Decolonialization : the British, Dutch, French and Belgian Empires: 1919-1963) 1971: De l'Empire britannique au Commonwealth, Librairie Armand Colin (rééd. 1999).
Henri Grimal also published in 2005 the first volume of his souvenirs: L'Envol, at Presses de l'université des Sciences sociales de Toulouse, an account of his young years in the region of his native village in the 1920s.
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Henri Grimal, La décolonisation, de 1919 à 1963. (compte rendu) on Persée
Decolonization: The British, French, Dutch and Belgian Empires, 1919-1963 by Henri Grimal on JSTOR
Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) 20th-century French historians People from Aveyron 1910 births 2012 deaths French centenarians Men centenarians