Amouroux was born in the French city of
Périgueux on 1 July 1920. After studying at the
ECJ, he began his career as a
journalist during World War II and joined a
French Resistance group based in
Bordeaux (group Jade-Amicol). He was awarded
Croix de Guerre 1939–1945. Amouroux wrote several books on the
German occupation of France during his life, especially a ten-volume ''La Grande Histoire des Français sous l'Occupation
(The Full History of the French under the Occupation
), published from 1976 to 1993. He later worked for several French newspaper (France Soir'') radio (
France Inter) and television (
TF1) stations. Amouroux was a member of the
Institut de France and served as president of the
Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He died in 2007 in
Normandy at the age of 87, and was buried in the
Gironde region of France. ==References==