Jean-René Van der Plaetsen
Jean-René Van der Plaetsen (born 9 August 1962) is a French journalist and writer. He is Deputy Managing Editor of Le Figaro Magazine. He has also been a member of the jury of the Prix de Flore since its creation in 1994.[1]
Life
Born in Lubumbashi, Republic of the Congo (former Belgian Congo), Van der Plaetsen studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly (Paris), the Collège Saint-François-de-Sales (Évreux) [fr] then at the Collège Saint-Sulpice (Paris). He holds a law degree from the Paris Descartes University and is a former student of Sciences Po.
Le Figaro and Le Figaro Magazine
Van der Plaetsen joined Le Figaro in 1988, where he spent his entire career, including le Figaro littéraire, culture, and politics (of which he was head of department), then editor-in-chief. In January 2008, Alexis Brézet [fr], then promoted to managing editor of Le Figaro Magazine, brought him to the magazine and appointed him deputy managing editor, a position he still holds today.[2]
A friend of Michel Houellebecq, he conducted a series of very long interviews with him, entitled Un été avec Michel Houellebecq, which appeared in five episodes in Le Figaro Magazine during the summer of 2015. We see the author of Atomised confiding in complete freedom on the most diverse subjects - and interacting with philosopher Alain Finkielkraut[3] and rock-star Iggy Pop.[4]
Work
- La Nostalgie de l'honneur [fr], Paris, Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle, 2017, 240 p. ISBN 978-2-246-81393-4 – Grand Prix Jean Giono 2017; Prix Interallié 2017.
- - Description of the heroic act of the Free French [fr] and the Compagnons de la Libération during the Second World War, as well as those of Indochina and Algéria[5] through the itinerary of his maternal grandfather, the army general Jean Crépin, in whom the writer Bernard-Henri Lévy sees "one of the most luminous figures in the epic of Free France".[6][7] "The strength of this book", writes the academician Jean-Marie Rouart, "is because it does not only evoke the author's grandfather, he speaks to us about us, about France, about a universe and a painful military sensitivity. Because, through a character, he reveals a tragedy to us. The officers' ordeal, in the fateful period 1940-1965, has rarely been illuminated in such a fair light."[8] Franz-Olivier Giesbert, journalist and writer, also praised the book as follows: "Through the shocking account of the feats of his grandfather, hero of the Second World War and companion of General de Gaulle, Jean-René Van der Plaetsen pays tribute to this endangered value in a book that smells of heaven and clean air: The Nostalgia of Honour."[9]
References
- ^ "Histoire du Prix de Flore". Prix de Flore (in French). 22 August 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "Réorganisation à la tête du "Figaro Magazine"". Challenges (in French). 18 February 2009. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "Exclusif: la rencontre Michel Houellebecq-Alain Finkielkraut". Le Figaro (in French). 13 August 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "Michel Houellebecq : Iggy Pop, le rock et moi". Le Figaro (in French). 27 August 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "La nostalgie de l'honneur". Grasset (in French). Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "La Règle du Jeu". La Règle du Jeu (in French). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "Le Point". Le Point (in French). 31 July 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "Paris Match". www.parismatch.com (in French). 11 September 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ "Mon Grand Père ce Héros". Magazine Littéraire (in French). September 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
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- 1956 Armand Lanoux
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- 1960 Jean Portelle [fr]
- 1960 Henry Muller
- 1961 Jean Ferniot
- 1962 Henri-François Rey
- 1963 Renée Massip
- 1964 René Fallet
- 1965 Alain Bosquet
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- 1967 Yvonne Baby
- 1968 Christine de Rivoyre
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- 1970 Michel Déon
- 1971 Pierre Rouanet [fr]
- 1972 Georges Walter [fr]
- 1973 Lucien Bodard
- 1974 René Mauriès
- 1975 Voldemar Lestienne
- 1976 Raphaële Billetdoux
- 1977 Jean-Marie Rouart
- 1978 Jean-Didier Wolfromm
- 1979 François Cavanna
- 1980 Christine Arnothy
- 1981 Louis Nucéra
- 1982 Éric Ollivier
- 1983 Jacques Duquesne [fr]
- 1984 Michèle Perrein
- 1985 Serge Lentz
- 1986 Philippe Labro
- 1987 Raoul Mille [fr]
- 1988 Bernard-Henri Lévy
- 1989 Alain Gerber [fr]
- 1990 Bayon [fr]
- 1991 Sébastien Japrisot
- 1992 Dominique Bona
- 1993 Jean-Pierre Dufreigne
- 1994 Marc Trillard
- 1995 Franz-Olivier Giesbert
- 1996 Eduardo Manet
- 1997 Éric Neuhoff
- 1998 Gilles Martin-Chauffier [fr]
- 1999 Jean-Christophe Rufin
- 2000 Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
- 2001 Stéphane Denis
- 2002 Gonzague Saint Bris
- 2003 Frédéric Beigbeder
- 2004 Florian Zeller
- 2005 Michel Houellebecq
- 2006 Michel Schneider
- 2007 Christophe Ono-dit-Biot [fr]
- 2008 Serge Bramly
- 2009 Yannick Haenel
- 2010 Jean-Michel Olivier [fr]
- 2011 Morgan Sportès
- 2012 Philippe Djian
- 2013 Nelly Alard
- 2014 Mathias Menegoz
- 2015 Laurent Binet
- 2016 Serge Joncour
- 2017 Jean-René Van der Plaetsen
- 2018 Thomas B. Reverdy
- 2019 Karine Tuil
- 2020 Irène Frain
- 2021 Mathieu Palain [fr]
- 2022 Philibert Humm [fr]