Max GalloA remarkable figure in French public life, Max Gallo is the author of 80 books - biographies, novels, historical novels, memoirs such as The Napoleon Series - which have sold in their hundreds of thousands. Formerly Professor of Historyat Nice University, his political career, which began in Nice, was galvanized when François Mitterrand persuaded him to be spokesperson for his government. He has been or continues to be an MEP, newspaper editor, eminence grise in the last French elections and he lives in Paris. Read More Read Less