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Jean Lacouture

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
June 08 1921
Died
1515 07 20152015
Jean Lacouture is a journalist, historian and author. He is particularly famous for his biographies.y

Jean Lacouture 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 until 1975.

Politically engaged on the Left, Lacouture supported decolonisation, and Mitterrand from 1981. He worked for the Nouvel Observateur, and L'Histoire. 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 is 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, Rivière, Stendhal and Kennedy.

A dedicated music lover, Lacouture is also president of a society of devotees of Georges Bizet.

Jean Lacouture

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
June 08 1921
Died
1515 07 20152015
Jean Lacouture is a journalist, historian and author. He is particularly famous for his biographies.y

Jean Lacouture 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 until 1975.

Politically engaged on the Left, Lacouture supported decolonisation, and Mitterrand from 1981. He worked for the Nouvel Observateur, and L'Histoire. 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 is 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, Rivière, Stendhal and Kennedy.

A dedicated music lover, Lacouture is also president of a society of devotees of Georges Bizet.

Books from Jean Lacouture

Ho Chi Minh: A Political Biography

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Pierre Mendès France

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Banner of Peoples War, The Party's Military Line

2.4/5 ( ratings)

Jésuites, tome 1 : Les Conquérants

4/5 ( ratings)

André Malraux, une vie dans le siècle

4/5 ( ratings)

End of a War: Indochina, 1954

3/5 ( ratings)

Un siècle pour rien

4.6/5 ( ratings)

E Depois Do Laos?

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Si la vie continue...

4.5/5 ( ratings)

شامبوليون: حياة من نور

4/5 ( ratings)

Un siècle pour rien : Le Moyen-Orient arabe de l'Empire ottoman à l'Empire américain (Itinéraires du savoir)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Regards sur le cinéma égyptien, 1895-1975

4/5 ( ratings)

Egypt in Transition

4/5 ( ratings)

Vietnam: voyage à travers une victoire

4/5 ( ratings)

Le Voyage En Mésopotamie Et La Conversion De Louis Massignon En 1908

4/5 ( ratings)

Charles de Gaulle

4/5 ( ratings)

In the Year of the Pig

4/5 ( ratings)

Le rugby, c'est un monde

4/5 ( ratings)

Molière et le roi: l'affaire Tartuffe

4/5 ( ratings)

Que Futuro Para O Vietname?

4/5 ( ratings)
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