On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
Jean-Claude Guillebaud (born 21 May 1944 in Algiers) is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist. A journalist at the daily Sud Ouest, then at the newspaper Le Monde and the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, Jean-Claude Guillebaud also directed the organisation Reporters Without Borders. In 1972 he was the recipient of the Prix Albert-Londres. He is a member of the sponsorship committee of the Coordination française pour la Décennie of the culture of peace and non-violence. In 2005, Guillebaud published La force de conviction. He kept a weekly column on the life of the media in the television supplement of Le Nouvel Observateur before replacing Jacques Julliard as columnist at Le Nouvel Observateur from November 2010. He also keeps a chronicle of observation of French society and politics in the Catholic weekly La Vie. Since June 2008, he has been a member of the supervisory board of the press group Bayard Presse. In 2016, he presided the 23rd Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre. Source: Article "Jean-Claude Guillebaud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.