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Alain Jaubert

1940 – 2025

French journalist, writer and television director

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Lived 1940 – 2025 (aged 84). Alain Jaubert was a French journalist, writer, television director, screenwriter, translator and television producer.

Alain Jaubert (1940 – 15 March 2025) was a French writer and journalist, producer and director of television, producer of the magazine Les Arts - France 3 and Oceaniques from 1990 to 1993 and author and director of the series "" since 1988. On 29 May 1971, he was victim of a "beating" in a police van when he wanted to accompany a person taken to the police station. The case made a great noise considering the personality of the journalist, then working for Le Nouvel Observateur. Jaubert died on 15 March 2025, at the age of 84.

Filmography For productions of INA. 1981 Trois histoires de Chine (54’), INA, diffusion RSS, unpublished in France. 1982 La Disparition (8’), INA, diffusion Antenne 2. La Flèche du temps, séquence dans Le Changement à plus d’un titre (émission anniversaire), INA, diffusion FR3. 1983 Conversations with Joseph Needham (55’), series "Mémoire", INA, diffusion TF1. Passions électriques (13’), INA, diffusion TF1 and RTBF. 1985 Auschwitz, l’album, la mémoire, INA/HEXAGRAMM, diffusion Antenne 2. 1986 Le Rhône (56’), series "Les Fleuves de la Méditerranée", INA/RAI/CNRS, diffusion RAI.

For "Océaniques" on FR3 1988 La bibliothèque idéale, Jorge Luis Borges au Collège de France, conversations with Robert Darnton, and Umberto Eco (2x45’). 1989 Entretien avec Octavio Paz, conversation with Mario Vargas Llosa. 1990 Entretien avec Stephen Jay Gould, Le Sacrifice (debate with Roberto Calasso and René Girard). 1992 Portrait d’un expert, Federico Zeri (2x55’).

For ARTE 1993 Citizen Barnes, an américan dream in collaboration with Philippe Pilard. Faux et images de faux, in collaboration with François Niney. Piero della Francesca. La voix. La Beat Generation in collaboration with Éric Sarner. Manifesto in collaboration with Michel le Bayon. 1994 Gustave Caillebotte ou les aventures du regard, 60’. 1988/2002 Series Palettes 1998 Giacomo Casanova 1999 La bibliothèque, rêves et légendes 2001 Nietzsche, un voyage philosophique

France 3 1995: Series Un siècle d'écrivains: Henri Michaux

Books 1973: Dossier D... comme Drogue, Éditions Alain Moreau 1973 1986: Le Commissariat aux archives, Éditions Barrault, 1986. Ne pariez jamais votre tête au diable, translation and presentation of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, Éditions Gallimard /Folio. 1993: Peinture cinéma et retour, Ministère des Affaires étrangères 1998: Palettes, text of 20 films of the series, Éditions Gallimard/Collection L'Infini 2005: Val Paradis, Prix Goncourt du premier roman. 2008: Lumière de l'image, Gallimard 2008: Une nuit à Pompéi, Gallimard 2011: D'Alice à Frankenstein, Lumière de l'image II, Gallimard 2011: Tableaux noirs, Gallimard 2013: Au bord de la mer violette, Gallimard, Prix Éric Tabarly 2014. 2015: Casanova l’aventure, Gallimard, 2016: La moustache d'Adolf Hitler et autres essais, Gallimard

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French journalist, writer and television director

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Alain Jaubert was born on 29 July 1940 in 14th arrondissement of Paris, Paris.

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Alain Jaubert died on 15 March 2025 in 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris.

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Alain Jaubert was a journalist, writer, television director, screenwriter, translator and television producer.

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Alain Jaubert was French.

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