Jean-Noël Jeanneney
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Jean-Noël Jeanneney (born 2 April 1942, in
Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...
) is a French
historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
and
politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
. He is the son of
Jean-Marcel Jeanneney Jean-Marcel Jeanneney (13 November 1910 – 17 September 2010) was minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 1960s, and France's first ambassador to Algeria in the immediate aftermath of the Algerian War. Born in Paris, he ha ...
and the grandson of
Jules Jeanneney Jules Émile Jeanneney (6 July 1864–27 April 1957) was a French lawyer and politician. Jules Jeanneney was born in Besançon in the department of Doubs. His mother died soon after his birth, leaving his father, an auctioneer, to raise the c ...
, both important figures in French politics.


Education

After his secondary schooling in Grenoble, Jeanneney studied in
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. Beginning at the ''rue d'Ulm'' campus of the ''
École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, S ...
'', he later studied at the ''
Institut d'études politiques de Paris , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , accreditation ...
(IEP)'' (lit. "Paris Institute of Political Studies"). He earned his doctorate in letters and passed his '' agrégation'' (a competitive examination) in history.


Media studies

Jeanneney specialized in media history, an area which he helped pioneer. He took interest in the evolution of print media (
newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
s and
periodical A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar example is a newspaper, but a magazine or a journal are also examples ...
s), of
radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...
, and of
television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
. He taught at the University of Paris X: Nanterre until 1977. He was also named ''
maître de conférences ''Maître'' (spelled ''Maitre'' according to post-1990 spelling rules) is a commonly used honorific for lawyers, judicial officers and notaries in France, Belgium, Switzerland and French-speaking parts of Canada. It is often written in its abbrev ...
'', and then, in 1979, ''professeur des universités'' at the ''IEP''. It was there that he oversaw research on the history of the press.


Involvement in radio and television

Jeanneney subsequently changed his focus, from external study to actual participation in
mass media Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit information ...
. Specifically, he was president and general manager of
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from 1982 to 1986 and afterwards worked in television, in particular for a history channel on
cable television Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with broa ...
.


Political career

In politics, Jeanneney is very close to the
Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...
. *1991–1992: junior minister of Exterior
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(under
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Édith Cresson Édith Cresson (; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician from the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so. She was the only woman to be prime minister until 2022, whe ...
) *1992–1993: junior minister of Communication (under Prime Minister
Pierre Bérégovoy Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy (; 23 December 1925 – 1 May 1993) was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under President François Mitterrand from 2 April 1992 to 29 March 1993. He was a member of the Socialist Party and ...
) *1992–1998: member of the ''
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'' of the
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''
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'' With
Élisabeth Guigou Élisabeth Guigou (; born Élisabeth Vallier; 6 August 1946) is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2002 until 2017, representing Seine-Saint-Denis' 9th constituency. Early life and ...
, he has been co-president of the
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''Europartenaires'' since 1998.


President of the National Library of France

From 2002 to 2007, Jeanneney was president of the '' Bibliothèque nationale de France''. In this capacity, he was noted for his opposition to
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Since making his objections known, he has been looking to develop a
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an digitization program to be run by governmental authorities.


Published works

Jean-Noël Jeanneney has published works on media history, other works of history, and essays on various subjects. He has written prefaces for several works, which are not included on the list. *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''François de Wendel en république : l'argent et le pouvoir (1914-1940)'' hesis Seuil, Paris, 1976. . *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''L'Argent caché : milieux d'affaires et pouvoirs politiques dans la France du XXe siècle'', Fayard, Paris, 1981. . *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''Échec à Panurge : l'audiovisuel public au service de la différence'', Seuil, Paris, 1986. . *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''Une histoire des médias, des origines à nos jours'', Points, Paris, 1990 (republished 4 times). *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''L'Avenir vient de loin'', Seuil, Paris, 1994. . *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, with Agnès Chauveau, ''L'Écho du siècle : dictionnaire de la radio et de la télévision'', Hachette, Arte, La Cinquième, Paris, 1999. . *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''Le duel : une passion française (1789-1914)'', Seuil, Paris, 2004. . *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''Clemenceau : portrait d'un homme libre'', Mengès, Paris, 2005. . *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''Quand Google défie l'Europe : plaidoyer pour un sursaut'', Mille et une Nuits, Paris, 2005. . *Jean-Noël Jeanneney, ''Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge : a view from Europe '', translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2007. .


Articles

*''Quand le sacrilège était puni de mort en France'' (When Sacrilege Was Punished By Death In France), in ''
L'Histoire ''L'Histoire'' is a monthly mainstream French magazine dedicated to historical studies, recognized by peers as the most important historical popular magazine (as opposed to specific university journals or less scientific popular historical mag ...
'', June 2006, pp. 68–72 (on the 1825
Anti-Sacrilege Act The Anti-Sacrilege Act (1825–1830) was a French law against blasphemy and sacrilege passed in April 1825 under King Charles X. The death penalty provision of the law was never applied, but a man named François Bourquin was sentenced to perpe ...
)


External links


Jean-Noël Jeanneney´s official website
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