Jules Roy

Writer

October 22, 1907 (92 years)

† June 15, 2000

Rovigo, French Algeria

Biography

Jules Roy (22 October 1907 – 15 June 2000) was a French writer. "Prolific and polemical" Roy, born an Algerian pied noir and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences in the French colony and during his service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War as inspiration for a number of his works. He began writing in 1946, while still serving in the military, and continued to publish fiction and historical works after his resignation in 1953 in protest of the First Indochina W…

Filmography

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Les Chevaux du soleil

Adapted from Jules Roy's historical novel of the French presence in North Africa, the TV series follows the destiny of two families, the Bouychous and the Parises, from the conquest of Algiers in 1830 to the Independence in 1962.

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The Taste of Violence

Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.

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