- Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur.
- Compagnon de la Libération, the French Order established by Charles de Gaulle.
- The Place Claude-Bourdet is named after him in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.
- In 1950, he co-founded the news-magazine "L'Observateur".
- He was arrested by the Gestapo and he was deported to various concentration camps, including Buchenwald. (March 25, 1944)
- Very active in French Resistance during World War II, he co-founded the resistance newspaper "Combat".
- Three children, Nicolas, Catherine and Louis, with his spouse Ida Bourdet (born Ida Vartanovna Adamiantz-Adamoff in Moscow, Russia, 25 June 1910, died in France, 5 June 1993), a tennis player active in the 1930s (she reached the doubles final at the 1935 French Championships).
- His parents were Édouard Bourdet and his first wife, the French poet Catherine Pozzi (13 July 1882 - 3 December 1934).
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