Michel Droit (23 January 1923 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne â 22 June 2000) was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Ăric Droit (1954â2007). After studying at the FacultĂ© des lettres de Paris and Sciences Po, Droit joined the army in 1944 and was wounded near Ulm in April 1945. He took on a career as a press, radio and television journalist after the Second World War