Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (20 August 1913 – 23 June 1957) was a French schoolmaster, officer, journalist, broadcaster and poet.
Despite the apparently noble patronymic, Jean-Paul de Dadelsen was the son of an Alsatian notary from Guebwiller, of German and Swiss ancestry.
In 1943 he became an officer of the Interior Commission, in the Information Section of de Gaulle's Provisional Government in London.
Among its other leading contributors were Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, Emmanuel Mounier and Raymond Aron.
When Camus left Combat in 1947, de Dadelsen became London correspondent of the paper, Franc-Tireur, a post he filled 1948-1949.
Between 1946 and 1951 de Dadelsen presented, from London, a weekly current affairs programme, “Les Propos du Vendredi”, for the BBC French Section.
Not until the late age of 39, during his first stay in Switzerland, did de Dadelsen compose his first long poem, “Bach en automne” (1952-1953), that Camus published in 1955 in the Nouvelle Revue Française.
A first collection, consisting of the unfinished series, “Jonas”, was published by Gallimard in 1962 by François Duchêne, a colleague and friend of Jean Monnet.
[12] Although his early gifts were apparent to those around him, recognition of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen's poetic genius has only arrived posthumously.