Jean Lacouture

Jean Lacouture 9 June 1921 16 July 2015 was a journalist historian and author He was particularly famous for his biographies Jean Lacouture was born in Bordeaux France He began his career in journalism in 1950 in Combat as diplomatic redactor He joined Le Monde in 1951 In 1953 he worked in Cairo for France Soir before returning to Le Monde as director for the overseas services and grand reporter one of the highest titles in French journalism until 1975 Politically engaged on the Left Lacouture supported decolonisation and Mitterrand from 1981 He worked for the Nouvel Observateur and LHistoire He is interviewed in the 1968 documentary film about the Vietnam War entitled In the Year of the Pig Lacouture was also director for publication at Seuil one of the main French publishers from 1961 to 1982 and professor at the IEP of Paris between 1969 and 1972 He was mainly known to the public because of his biographies including the lives of Ho Chi Minh Nasser Léon Blum De Gaulle François Mauriac Pierre Mendès France Mitterrand Montesquieu Montaigne Malraux Germaine Tillion Champollion Jacques Rivière Stendhal and Kennedy A dedicated music lover Lacouture was also president of a society of devotees of Georges Bizet In 2015 he died in Roussillon France Source Article Jean Lacouture from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30