André Castelot

André Castelot, born André Storms, was a French writer and scriptwriter born in Belgium. He was the son of the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas and Gabrielle Storms-Castelot, and the brother of the film actor Jacques Castelot. He wrote more than one hundred books, mostly biographies of famous people. With the historian Alain Decaux he hosted the radio program La Tribune de l'Histoire on RTF from 1951 until 1997.