Biography

Albert Naud was born on May 8, 1904 in Saint-Amant-de-Graves, Charente, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Mourir d'aimer... (1971), Life Love Death (1969) and Ouvrez les guillemets (1973). He died on February 20, 1977 in Paris, France.

He was the defence attorney of Gabrielle Russier. This teacher, in her late twenties, fell in love with a 17-years old pupil during the events of May 1968. The parents were scandalized, sued her. The poor woman, whose only crime was love, committed suicide in 1970, before the trial. Her story was counted on "Mourir d'aimer".

Fought all his life long against the death penalty. He was counselor on "La vie, l'amour, la mort" for all technical details (in 1951, his client, a young murderer called Watrin, was guillotined), so he can explain all parts of an execution, and taught the actors who played executioners how to tie a man and how to hold him to the guillotine.

One of the greatest defence attorneys of France from the 40s to the 70s.