Jean-Pierre Thiollet facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Jean-Pierre Thiollet
Born	(1956-12-09) 9 December 1956 (age 68) Poitiers, France
Occupation	Writer, columnist
Language	French
Alma mater	Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3
Notable works	Sax, Mule & Co (2004) Je m'appelle Byblos (2005) Barbey d'Aurevilly (2006) Carré d'Art : Byron, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dalí, Hallier (2008) Bodream (2010) Piano ma non solo (2012), Hallier, l'Edernel jeune homme (2016)

Jean-Pierre Thiollet (French: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ tjɔlɛ]; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist.

Primarily residing in Paris, he is the author of several books and is one of the national leaders of the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CEDI), a European employers' organization.

Career

Thiollet attended a school in Châtellerault, studying in Poitiers classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles and acquiring a degree in Parisian universities (Pantheon-Sorbonne University, University of Paris III:Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris-Sorbonne University).

In 1978, he was admitted to Saint-Cyr (Coëtquidan), a French military academy.

During the 1980s and until the mid-1990s, he was a member of a French Press organization for Music-hall, Circus, "Dance and Arts". This organisation was presided by French journalist Jacqueline Cartier, and included authors and personalities like Pierre Cardin, Guy des Cars, and Francis Fehr.

From 1982 to 1986, he was subjected to illegal wiretaps (organized by the French President François Mitterrand), for his telephone conversations with the French writer and polemist Jean-Edern Hallier.

At the end of the 1980s, he was the vice president of Amiic (World Real Estate Investment Organization, Geneva). He was a lecturer, with others such as Pierre Salinger, François Spoerry, Paul-Loup Sulitzer, at some international meetings of this organization (that was dissolved in 1997).

At the beginning of the 1990s, he was, with Gilbert Prouteau, one of the writers and art critics for a French magazine, L'Amateur d'Art.

From 1988 to 1994, he was editor-in-chief for Le Quotidien de Paris (Daily Press Group, director Philippe Tesson.

In 1994, he interviewed Gérard Mulliez, for the book The Customer Driven Company — Moving from Talk to Action (translated in French as La Dynamique du client) by Richard C. Whiteley.

In 1997, he served as Communications Director and member of the Mayor's Cabinet during the parliamentary election in Toulon. He was arbitrarily dismissed the morning after the successful poll and, months later, published "Le Chevallier à découvert" (Laurens, Paris). In 1997, he was also present when the township of Delphi appointed renowned environmentalist Franz Weber as an honorary citizen (Citoyen d'honneur).

In 1999, he co-produced Studies (Chopin) recorded by Radoslav Kvapil. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Company Secretary of Mea Publications Limited (United Kingdom) producing the print and online versions of Ici Londres magazine.

Along with Alain Decaux, Frédéric Beigbeder and Richard Millet, he was one of the guest writers at the 2005 Beirut Book Fair (BIEL) for Je m'appelle Byblos (My Name Is Byblos).

In April 2006, he was directly concerned with the business resumption of France-Soir, but the entrepreneur Jean-Pierre Brunois was finally chosen by the Commercial Court of Lille.

Since 2007, he has been a member of the World Grand Family of Lebanon (RJ Lebanon Club).

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From 2009 to 2012, he worked as one of the France-Soir editors.

In October 2016, after dedicating a book about Jean-Edern Hallier to "the youth native from Euroland, zone F, the victim of an old criminal political ruling class", he denounced in an interview "the French crime, committed by a political class, from the left as from the right".

Thiollet's wife, Monique, ran as a candidate in Châtellerault's 2020 municipal elections with support from La République en Marche.

See also

In Spanish: Jean-Pierre Thiollet para niños