Jean-Marie Aimot was a French novelist, critic, biographer and translator who was active in the middle third of the 20th century. His books include Nos mitrailleuses n'ont pas tiré which won the Prix des Deux Magots

Prix des Deux Magots

The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt....

 in 1941 and La Carrière de Raoul Champfrond, a novel which won the Prix Balzac in 1944. He wrote biographies of Mané-Katz

Mane-Katz

Emmanuel Mané-Katz, born Mane Leyzerovich Kats , was a Jewish painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe.- Biography :...

 and Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands , was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley allegedly uttered the now-famous greeting, "Dr...

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A member of the collaborationist French Popular Party, Aimot was associated with the extreme right/fascist wing of French politics. He served as director of the French Documentary Film Service under the Vichy

Vichy

Vichy is a commune in the department of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It belongs to the historic province of Bourbonnais.It is known as a spa and resort town and was the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.The town's inhabitants...

government.

Selected works

• Lilian Harvey (1932)
• Mané-Katz (1933)
• Nos mitrailleuses n'ont pas tiré: journal d'une section de D.A.T. (1941)
• La Carriere de Raoul Champfrond: roman (1944)
• Stanley, le dernier conquistador (1951)
• Drieu la Rochelle: témoignages et documents (1958)