Jean Lebrun at the in 2008 Jean Lebrun (14 May 1950, Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French journalist. A professor agrégé of history, he soon preferred journalism to the Éducation nationale. After he collaborated with ''

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for the radio stations France Culture then France Inter.

Career

Born of a gardener father and a caretaker mother, Jean Lebrun grew up in the Parisian suburbs and studied in the Catholic college Notre-Dame de la Providence at Enghien-les-Bains. He pursued his higher studies at the Sorbonne, then immersed in the May 1968 events in France. He devoted a master's thesis to the history of the La Trappe Abbey, at Rancé. An agrégé of history, he abandoned teaching to engage in journalism. He collaborated at ''

'', the TV program ' in the 1970s, the magazine ''

'', whose editorial board he was a member, and ''

'', whose cultural service he co-directed. At France Culture, where Jean Lebrun has spent most of his career, he produced and hosted the programs ''Culture Matin'' (from 1992 to 1999) and ''Pot-au-feu'' before animating ''Travaux Public'', a program broadcast from Monday to Friday from 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm which he periodically recorded in a "Deep France Culture" ambiance from

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( Haute-Marne). The program was live from the Argentinian café ''El Sur'' on

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in Paris on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and in various French cities on Thursdays and Fridays. The recording sometimes took place at festivals or abroad. In June 2008, Jean Lebrun stopped producing the program ''Travaux publics''. He then worked until February 2011 as program advisor to the director of the France Culture channel. Lebrun replaced , producer of ' on France Inter, with ' on 28 February 2011. He is the author of ''Journaliste en campagne'' (October 2006) and ''Le Journalisme en chantier : chronique d'un artisan'' (October 2008), both published by the publishing house . In 2014, he was awarded the

prix Goncourt de la Biographie The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward ...

for ''Notre Chanel'', published by Bleu autour, A biographical work on the fashion designer undertaken years earlier with his companion Bernard Costa (died of AIDS in 1990). He joined the editorial board of ' in 2015. Jean Lebrun was awarded the Prix Richelieu in 1997.

Works

*1978: ''L'Abbé Louis-Joseph Fret : historien et diseur de vérités 1800–1843'', "Cahiers percherons", n° 60, ''Association des amis du Perche'', 40 p., *1981: ''Lamennais ou l'inquiétude de la liberté'', Paris, Fayard, 281 p., *1997: ''Pour l'amour des villes : interview with Jacques Le Goff'', Paris, Textuel, 159 p., *1997: ''Femmes publiques : interview with

Michelle Perrot Michelle Perrot (born 18 May 1928, Paris) is a French historian, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai. Life She has worked on the history of labor movements, and s ...

'', Textuel, 159 p., *1997: ''Le Livre en révolutions : interview with Roger Chartier'', Textuel, 159 p., *1998: ''La République sur le fil : interview with Serge Berstein'', Textuel, 143 p., *1998: ''Une laïcité pour tous : interview with René Rémond'', Textuel, 143 p., *2001: ''Raison d'Église De la rue d'Ulm à Notre-Dame, 1967–2000 : conversations with '',

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, series " Mémoire vivante", 181 p., *2006: ''Journaliste en campagne'', Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, Bleu autour, 125 p., *2008: ''Le Journalisme en chantier : chronique d'un artisan'', Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, Bleu autour, 127 p., *2014: ''Notre Chanel''
Jean Lebrun
in the program "Pas la peine de crier" by on France Culture,

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académie Goncourt.
Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, Bleu Autour, 280 p., *2014: ''Les grands débats qui ont fait la France'', with Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Paris, Flammarion / France Inter, 352 p.,

References

External links

''Jean Lebrun, historien provocateur de troubles''
on Télérama
''La marche de l'histoire'' par Jean Lebrun
on France Inter
''Rencontre avec Jean Lebrun''
Hérodote on YouTube * ''Jean Lebrun''
portrait
by (1929–2012), Festival d'Avignon (40 ; 1986), 1 photogr. pos. : n. & b. ; 50 x 40 cm. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lebrun, Jean 1950 births Writers from Saint-Malo 20th-century French journalists 21st-century French journalists French radio producers French radio presenters Prix Goncourt de la Biographie winners Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Living people Radio France people