Genevieve Duboscq (9 April 1933 – 28 February 2018 in Chémeré-le-Roi) was a French author who wrote the best selling ''My Longest Night – A twelve-year-old heroine's stirring account of

D-Day The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D ...

and after''. It was originally published in French under the title ''Bye bye, Genevieve!'' She received the

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from the French Government and she and her family received America's

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in recognition of the assistance that she and her family gave the US

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during the invasion of France in 1944 by the Allies.

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* ''My Longest Night – A twelve-year-old heroine's stirring account of D-Day and after'', Genevieve Duboscq, Editions Random House, 1981. 1931 births 2018 deaths French memoirists Recipients of the Legion of Honour 20th-century French women writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub