Diane Ducret

About Diane Ducret

After a childhood in the Basque Country, Diane Ducret enrolled in preparatory classes at the Molière High School in Paris before going to study in Rome. She then completed a master’s degree in the history of philosophy at the Sorbonne Paris IV, defending a thesis on ‘Scientific Modernity and Transcendental Thought in Husserl’, followed by a DEA in the same specialty dealing with ‘Death as a Critique of Totality: Reading The Star of Redemption by Franz Rosenzweig’. She then undertook a master’s degree in contemporary philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure.

Diane Ducret, a polyglot, then collaborated on the writing of historical documentaries for France 3 for the show Des racines et des ailes and hosted, in 2009, The History Forum on the History channel.

In January 2011, she released her first book, Women of Dictators, published by Perrin, a bestseller in France and translated into eighteen languages. She discusses the stories of the wives and mistresses of Benito Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Antonio Salazar, Bokassa, Mao Zedong, Nicolae Ceau?escu, and Adolf Hitler. In 2012, she published a second volume of the work, where she examines the fates of the companions of Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Khomeini, Slobodan Miloševi?, Kim Jong-Il, and Osama bin Laden.

Diane Ducret is also present on Europe 1 as an occasional commentator on Laurent Ruquier’s show “On va s’gêner”.