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* [[Legion of Honour|Officier de la Légion d'honneur]]

* [[Croix de guerre 1939-1945]]

* [[Resistance Medal|Médaille de la Résistance]]

* [[Cross for Military Valour|Croix de la Valeur militaire]]

* [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres]]

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'''Serge Groussard''' (18 January 1921 – 2 January 2016) was a French journalist and writer, the son of colonel [[Georges Groussard (resistant)|Georges Groussard]] and Véra Bernstein-Woolbrunn.

==Biography==

Serge Groussard studied at the Calvin Institute in [[Montauban]], at the [[La Rochelle]] high school, and at the Lycée Gouraud in [[Rabat]], Morocco. He later attended the Faculty of Arts and the [[Sciences Po]], both in Paris.

In September 1939, he volunteered for the duration of the [[World War II|Second World War]] and participated as a pupil infantry officer in the fighting on the [[Loire]]. An information officer for the [[French Resistance]], he was arrested in January 1943 by the [[Gestapo]], sentenced to thirty years in prison, and deported to Germany. He recounted this experience in his first published work, ''Crépuscule des vivants'', in 1946.

In 1953, Groussard was a military parachutist. From October 1956 to October 1957 and again in 1959, he served as lieutenant, then captain, in Algeria, to which he dedicated the narrative ''Écrivain''.

His career was devoted to writing novels and stories, for ''[[Le Figaro]]'' from 1954 to 1962 and ''[[L'Aurore (1944 newspaper)|l'Aurore]]'' from 1962 to 1969.

==Selected works==

Groussard wrote twenty-five books, including twenty novels, eight of which were adapted to film:

* ''Crépuscule des vivants'' (1946)

* ''Pogrom'' (1948)

* ''Solitude espagnole'', Prix International du Grand-Reportage, Prix Claude Blanchard (1948)

* ''Des gens sans importance'', Prix Populiste (1949) – adapted to film under the title ''[[People of No Importance]]'' by [[Henri Verneuil]] (1956)

* ''La Femme sans passé'', [[Prix Femina]] (1950) – adapted to film under the title ''[[The Passerby (1951 film)|The Passerby]]'' by [[Henri Calef]] (1951)

* ''Talya'' (1951)

* ''Orage à Miami'' and ''L'Ancêtre'' (1954)

* ''Un officier de tradition'' (1954)

* ''Une chic fille, recueils de nouvelles'', Grand Prix de la Nouvelle (1956)

* ''Demain est là'' (1956)

* ''La Belle espérance'' (1958)

* ''Quartier chinois'' (1958)

* ''La Passion du Maure'' (1960)

* ''Jeunesse sauvage'' (1960)

* ''Mektoub'', Prix du roman populiste (1967)

* ''Tu es soleil'' (1970)

* ''Taxi de nuit'' (1971)

* ''L'Algérie des adieux'' (1972)

* ''La Médaille de sang'' (1973)

* ''La Guerre oubliée'' (1974)

* ''Les Cobras'' (1981)

==Honours==

* [[Legion of Honour|Officier de la Légion d'honneur]]

* [[Resistance Medal|Médaille de la Résistance]]

* [[Cross for Military Valour|Croix de la Valeur militaire]]

* [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres]]

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