Henri de Turenne (born in Tours on 19 November 1921) is a French journalist and screenwriter. [1] The son of Armand de Turenne, a World War One flying ace, he was raised in Germany and French Algeria, both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work.[1] After the Second World War, de Turenne worked as a journalist for Agence France-Presse, Le Figaro, France Soir and ORTF, reporting from Allied-occupied Germany, covering the Korean War and the Algerian War, and, in 1952, winning the Prix Albert Londres.[1] Since the mid-1960s, he has worked primarily in television, notably on the French Grandes Batailles series for Pathé, making over a hundred documentaries.[1] He won an Emmy in 1982 for a documentary on the Vietnam War.[1] He has also written fictional screenplays, the best-known of which is Les Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde (1996), for Arte, for which he shared a Sept d'or with Michel Deutsch.[1]