Robert Escarpit

Robert Escarpit (born 24 April 1918, Saint-Macaire, Gironde, France - died 19 November 2000, Langon, Gironde, France) was a French academic, writer and journalist. He is most known to the public for his satiric articles in newspapers such as Le Monde in which he wrote around twenty columns per month from 1949 to 1979.