2023-09-08 12:43:33
Published on September 8, 2023 at 1:33 p.m. Updated on September 8, 2023 at 2:43 p.m.
A great figure in the press and French intellectual life has just passed away. The historian and editorialist Jacques Julliard has died at the age of 90, the weekly “Marianne” and the daily “Le Figaro” announced on Friday, two titles with which the essayist, a figure of the second left, collaborated.
His disappearance immediately sparked numerous reactions and tributes. “Dear Jacques, you offered Marianne your humanity, your immense culture, your intelligence. Thank you from all my heart,” declared Natacha Polony, editorial director of “Marianne” magazine, on X (ex-Twitter).
For “Le Figaro”, where Jacques Julliard wrote a monthly column, “he left his mark on French intellectual life”. “Jacques Julliard was one of those men who are said to be unclassifiable and who are quite simply free. He died at the age of 90 and France loses one of its most precious intellectuals,” writes editorialist Eugénie Bastié.
Many tributes
Several tributes also came from the political world, notably from former President François Hollande: “A great republican, humanist and socialist voice has just passed away. […] The press loses one of its finest writers, the left one of its most fertile intellectuals. » The mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, salutes his side on
Born March 4, 1933 in Brénod, in Ain, educated in a republican environment with a radical tradition, Jacques Julliard, an associate professor of history, began his career as an academic, notably at the CNRS and the EHESS, and was involved in unionism, at the CFDT. He has been active since the 1970s within the Socialist Party, in the movement of Michel Rocard, and participated in the “second left” movement, opposed to the first, the Mitterrandist movement.
He began collaborating with “Le Nouvel Observateur” in 1969, then became a regular columnist between 1978 and 2010. He then continued his career as an editorialist with another magazine, “Marianne” and then became a columnist for “Figaro” in 2017, at age 84. He has also published numerous historical and political essays.
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