André Castelot

André Castelot, born André Storms (23 January 1911, Antwerp – 18 July 2004, Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French writer and scriptwriter born in Belgium. He was the son of the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas and Gabrielle Storms-Castelot (née Gabrielle Alice Castelot), and the brother of the film actor Jacques Castelot. He wrote more than one hundred books, mostly biographies of famous people.

Selected works

 * Louis XVII. L'énigme résolue (1947) - about Louis XVII
 * Le mystère de Louis XVII (1953)
 * Marie-Antoinette d'après des documents inédits (1953); trans. Marie Antoinette (1957) - about Marie Antoinette
 * King of Rome: A Biography of Napoleon's Tragic Son (trans., 1960) - about Napoleon II
 * Joséphine (1961) - about Josephine de Beauharnais
 * Paris: The Turbulent City 1783–1871 (trans., 1962)
 * Les Grandes Heures de Napoléon (6 vols., 1964)
 * Histoire de Napoléon Bonaparte (10 vols., 1969); trans. Napoleon (1971) - about Napoleon Bonaparte
 * Napoléon III et le second empire (6 vols., 1975) - about Napoleon III
 * Grande histoire illustrée de Napoléon (9 vols., 1989)
 * Fouché: Le double jeu (1990) - about Joseph Fouché

Adaptations

 * Napoleon II, the Eagle (1961, film)