Word: rousset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Underground Economist. The Théophraste Renaudot Prize went to David Rousset, for his L'Univers Concentrationnaire, a graphic, harrowing description of life in Nazi concentration camps in France. Rousset was a diligent researcher in TIME'S Paris Bureau before the war. After the occupation, he adopted the somewhat more exciting work of organizing anti-Nazi groups inside the German Army. A spy got into Rousset's organization and all the Germans were executed, but the Gestapo could not find evidence linking Rousset with the plot; he got off with a year and a half in five...
More successful than his venture into military mutiny was a clandestine newspaper which Rousset published during the war. His researcher's soul was annoyed because the Germans falsified business statistics and economic facts. To keep French businessmen from making mistakes, he operated a sort of underground Wall Street Journal...
...Rousset lost 90 pounds in the concentration camps, but he is back to normal now and his English wife calls him "mon gros...