Philippe Victor Diolé (

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, August 24, 1908 –

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, November 12, 1977) was a French author and undersea explorer. Diolé was born in

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, son of Marcel (a

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) and Elizabeth (Legrand) Diolé. He received a ''Licence en Droit'' (a

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) from the

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in 1928. He married Marguerite Monsenergue on July 6, 1953. With

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he co-authored 7 of the 8-volume series ''The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau'' (1970-1975) and co-authored ''The Whale'' (1987), which was released posthumously. In 1977, shortly before his death, Philippe Diolé was co-founder in Paris of the LFDA foundation (fr: La Fondation Droit Animal), aimed to defend

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.History section
in the official LFDA website (in French)

Bibliography

* 1949: ''Sous les plis du drapeau noir'' ('Under the Black Flag', not translated into English) * 1951: ''L'Aventure sous-marine'' (''The Undersea Adventure'', 1953) * 1952: ''Promenades d'archéologie sous-marine'' (''4,000 Years Under the Sea: Excursions in Undersea Archeology'', 1954) * 1953: ''Les Portes de la mer'' (''The Gates of the Sea: The Seas of Sicily'', 1955) * 1954: ''L'Exploration sous-marine'' (''Underwater Exploration: A History'', 1954) * 1954: ''Au bord de la terre : Fragments de la vie d'un plongeur'' ('Beside the Seaside: Fragments of a Diver's Life', not translated into English) * 1954: ''Les Paysages de la mer, de la surface a l'abîme'' ('The Sea Landscapes: From the Surface to the Abyss', not translated into English) * 1955: ''Le Plus Beau Désert du monde'' (1956 in the USA: ''Sahara Adventure''. 1959 in the UK: ''The Most Beautiful Desert of All'') * 1956: ''Dans le Fezzan inconnu'' ('In the Unknown Fezzan', not translated into English) * 1956: ''Le Trésor du banc d'argent'' ('The Treasure of the Silver Bank', not translated into English) * 1958: ''Du ciel à la stratosphère'' ('From the Sky to the Stratosphere', not translated into English) * 1959: ''L'Eau profonde : Roman'' ('The Deep Water: A Novel', not translated into English) * 1963: ''L'Okapi: Roman'' Editions Gallimard (''Okapi Fever: A Novel'', 1965,Viking Press, Translation: Peter Green) * 1965: ''Chasse d'Afrique'' ('Big Game in Africa', not translated into English) * In the collection ''The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau'' (

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, 1970–75) seven volumes of the whole collection were co-authored by Diolé and simultaneously published in English and French (Cousteau co-authored the first volume with his son Philippe ; all other seven volumes were co-authored with Diolé): :# 1970: ''Les Requins'' (''The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea'') :# 1971: ''Un Trésor englouti'' (''Diving for Sunken Treasure'') :# 1971: ''La Vie et la mort des coraux'' (''Life and Death in a Coral Sea'') :# 1972: ''Nos Amies les baleines'' (''The Whale: Mighty Monarch of the Sea'') :# 1973: ''Trois Aventures de la Calypso'' (''Three Adventures: Galápagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes'') :# 1973: ''Pieuvres, la fin d'un malentendu'' (''Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence'') :# 1974: ''Compagnons de plongée'' (''Diving Companions: Sea Lion, Elephant Seal, Walrus'') :# 1975: ''Les Dauphins et la liberté'' (''Dolphins'') * 1974: ''Les Animaux malades de l'homme'' (''The Errant Ark... Man's Relationship With Animals'', 1974) * 1975: ''Lettres au Président de la République sur la mort des Français'' ('Letters to the President of the Republic concerning the Death of the French', not translated into English) * 1976: ''Les Oubliés du Pacifique'' (''The Forgotten People of the Pacific'', 1977) * 1976: ''Falco, chef plongeur de la Calypso'' (''The Memoirs of Falco: Chief Diver of the Calypso'', 1977), with Albert Falco * 1977: ''L'Aventure de l'homme dans la mer'' ('The Adventure of Mankind into the Sea', not translated into English) * 1987: ''The Whale'' (with Cousteau, posthumous)

References

*''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2008. Reproduced i
''Biography Resource Center''
Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. Document Number: H1000025732

External links

Biography of Philippe Diolé
{{DEFAULTSORT:Diole, Philippe 1908 births 1977 deaths Sportspeople from Saint-Maur-des-Fossés French non-fiction writers Maritime writers 20th-century French explorers French oceanographers French underwater divers History of scuba diving 20th-century French non-fiction writers