Alexandre Blokh (Russian: Александр Арнольдович Блок), called Jean Blot, (31 March 1923, Moscow – 23 December 2019, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne)) was a French writer, translator, and senior civil servant of Russian origin.
Blot came from two bourgeois families (St. Petersburg diamonds for his father, wholesale grocer for his mother).
In the USSR of the twenties, his parents worked at the defense commissioner for his father, as a lawyer for street children for his mother.
A Russian and Jewish refugee, he fled to Lyon and engaged in the Resistance (Le juif Margolin 1998).
He was a doctor of Law, Bachelor of Arts, International Civil Servant at the United Nations in New York (1946–1956), in Geneva (1958–1961) then at the UNESCO in Paris (from 1962).