Henri Grimal

Henri Grimal 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, 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
1971: De l'Empire britannique au Commonwealth, Librairie Armand Colin.

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.