Thierry Séchan (19 September 1949 – 9 January 2019) was a
French journalist and writer.
Biography
Séchan was the older brother of French singer
Renaud
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (; born 11 May 1952 in Paris), known as Renaud, is a French singer-songwriter.
With twenty-six albums to his credit, selling nearly twenty million copies, he is one of France's most popular singers. Several of h ...
, and the son of writer
Olivier Séchan.
Séchan wrote lyrics for many singers, including
Julien Clerc,
Daniel Lavoie,
Les Chats Sauvages,
Dan Bigras, and others. His lyrics were very popular in
Quebec
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, and won an award from
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing rights of more than 175,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collect ...
(SOCAN).
He was a great fan of
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, soc ...
and
Étienne Roda-Gil, and wrote pieces on two of the artists' albums.
In 1990, Séchan was one of 250 people to sign
Ras L'Front's charter, a document against the far-right
National Rally
The National Rally (, , RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (, , FN), is a French far-right politics, far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and French nationalism, nationalist. It is the single largest Nat ...
. However, he would receive criticism for his failure to further denounce the party. For example, he had written columns on far-right news sources and declared his admiration for
Philippe de Villiers.
On 9 January 2019, Séchan was found dead in his home by his ex-wife. He may have been dead for several days, according to doctors.
References
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1949 births
2019 deaths
French journalists