"Gilles Perrault (born 9 March 1931, Paris) is a French writer and journalist.He attended the Coll\u00E8ge Stanislas de Paris and then studied at the Institut d'\u00E9tudes politiques, eventually becoming a lawyer, a profession he worked in for five years.After the success of his essay 'Les parachutistes' (1961), inspired by his military service in Algeria, he became a journalist and wrote articles about Nehru's India, the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the problems of African Americans in the United States. "@en . "1931Z"^^ . "Perrault, Gilles"@en . "French journalist" . "1931-03-09Z"^^ .