Background
He was the son of Doctor Mayer Saül Diamant-Berger and Jenny Birman, and his brother was Henri Diamant-Berger.
He was the son of Doctor Mayer Saül Diamant-Berger and Jenny Birman, and his brother was Henri Diamant-Berger.
In 1940, he left Paris and spent two years in the Midi, establishing the first Résistance networks and links with the British. On 31 August 1942, he left from Cannes for Gibraltar at night on the sail-boat Seadog, then went by plane to London, with Nicholas Bodington. From 17 May 1943 to 24 September 1944, he was the daily presenter of Honneur et patrie, the programme for the French resistance, creating le Chant des partisans and announcing every day "Ici Londres, les Français parlent aux Français" ("This is London, the French talk to the French").
On 1 June 1944, he replaced Maurice Schumann as general de Gaulle"s spokesman.
After the war, he dedicated himself to writing plays and novels, as well as television and radio scripts. In the 1950s he, Emmanuel Berl and Maurice Clavel presented the radio series Qui êtes-vous ?.
In 1973, André-Gillois he published Louisiana Vie secrète des Français à Londres de 1940 à 1944, and in 1980 his memoirs were published as He is buried at Passy cemetery.