René de La Croix, count de Castries was a French historian and a member of the House of Castries. He was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1972. He wrote under the pen name Duc de Castries, a courtesy title drawn from his family’s extinct dukedom.
- Occupation
- historian
- Position held
- president, president, president, Member of the Académie française
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- August 6, 1908
- Died
