Armand Megglé (1889 - 1959)

Born 1 Oct 1889 in Alexandria, Egypt

Husband of Renée (Generaud) Megglé — married about 1918 in France

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Biography

Armand Megglé is Notable.

Armand Megglé was a famous French economist, official, diplomat and writer. His descendants consist of a large number of modern-day notable and famous French persons and marriage relations in journalism and cinema. By the end of World War II he was publicly identified and black-listed as a Nazi collaborator of the French Vichy regime.

Armand was born on 01 October 1889 in Alexandria, Egypt.

He had three brothers,

1. Auguste,
2. Charles and
3. Alfred.

Armand studied at the Lycée français d'Alexandrie in Egypt, then moved to France and graduated from l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (The Institute of Political Studies in Paris).

In 1929 the Prix Armand Megglé was created in his name, for colonial French propaganda, whose jury was chaired by General Hubert Lyautey and Admiral Lucien Lacaze.

In 1932 Armand won the Prix Montyon, awarded by the French Academy and the Academy of Sciences.

In 1933 he joined the first jury of the Prix des Deux Magots.

He became involved in a financial scandal in 1935, but then became director of the National Committee of Foreign Trade Advisors of France in 1936 and became president of the Center for French expansion in 1937.

With Jean de Pierrefeu, he ran the French newspaper les Cahiers de la Jeune France, a journal affiliated with the Jeunesses Patriotes of Pierre Taittinger, and an organ of the National Revolution, the official voice of the ruling Vichy regime during the four year occupation of France by the Nazis. In the 1940s it published famous works of Auguste Lumière and André Demaison.

On March 16, 1944, Armand was named in the French resistance Bulletin intérieur des mouvements unis de résistance on a "black list" of writers who had collaborated with the Nazi occupiers.

Armand married Renée Generaud with whom he had two children,

1. Simone, who later married a Polish Jew and immigrant member of the French Resistance, and
2. Henri Megglé, who became a journalist hero of the French Resistance.

Armand became the grandfather of the famous French journalist Antoine Silber and great-grandfather of Judith Silberfeld, who became famous when she co-founded the LGBT French news website Yagg.

Armand died in May 1959.

Sources

• Fr.Wikipedia article: Armand Megglé

• Geni profile: Armand MEGGLE