Jean-Paul Enthoven

Jean-Paul Enthoven (born 11 January 1949) is a French publisher and journalist.

Biography Early life and education Born in Mascara near Oran in French Algeria, Enthoven comes from a bourgeois Jewish family. His mother was born Gilberte Tordjman

After attending the lycée Buffon, who thus participated in the life of the ephemeral daily L'Imprévu (January–February 1975). Despite the failure of Bernard-Henri Lévy's daily, the trio's friendship grew stronger around him to the point of appearing to be a true "sibling" where Jean-Paul Enthoven would, in his own words, be "Bernard's Minister of the Interior, and Gilles, his State Secretary for Foreign Affairs".

At the same time, his ties with Pierre Nora brought him into contact with Jean Daniel and the staff of Le Nouvel Observateur.

From December 1973 onwards, he published reviews of essays in philosophy and human sciences. It was then that in 1975, he did not appreciate being solicited by Maurice Duverger as a character witness in a trial about his Vichyst past. He thus resigned from teaching and turned to journalism. He was a journalist and then assistant to the chief editor of Le Nouvel Observateur until 1984. or the ongoing debates in the Parisian microcosm. With the latter two, he actively supports the media blossoming of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" and their leader, his friend Bernard-Henri Lévy. He admired the latter immensely and had such strong ties with him that all they lacked was "to be homosexual in order to mix and mingle", even more than they are. Witness at his wedding (like Gilles Hertzog), having breakfast every Saturday morning with him, he shares his passions as his concern for aesthetic appearance.

From the early 1980s, he took on more and more editorial responsibilities. Thus, in 1983, he took over the direction of the "Biblio-Essais" series founded by Bernard-Henri Lévy at Grasset. In 1984, he left his position as Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the Nouvel Observateur to head the Hachette-Littérature publishing house.

In 1986, he returned to the publishing house Grasset & Fasquelle as editorial director.

Private life Enthoven is the father of three children widow of Rodolphe de Belzunce d'Arenberg.

In September 2020 he publicly disowned his son Raphaël, after the latter published an autobiography. Enthoven complained about his private life being made public, asking his son to "show restraint" and cut off all contact.

Works Les Enfants de Saturne, Grasset, 1996, prix Cazes-Lipp and prix Valery-Larbaud in 1997,