Claude Grégory

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Claude Grégory
Born1921 (1921)
Died2010 (aged 88–89)
France
OccupationLiterary critic

Claude Grégory (January 8, 1921 — April 24, 2010) was a French literary critic and editor. He was born in Joinville-le-Pont, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Born Claude Zalta, he adopted the surname Grégory during his time in the French resistance.

Grégory was the founding editor-in-chief of the Encyclopædia Universalis from its inception in 1968.

He died in 2010, in Banon.

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