Jean-Pierre Thiollet

Jean-Pierre Thiollet (; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist. He is also affiliated with the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, a European trade union.

Career

Thiollet attended a school in Châtellerault, in Poitiers he attended classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles and acquired a degree in Parisian universities ( Pantheon-Sorbonne University, University of Paris III:Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris-Sorbonne University).

In 1978, he was admitted to Saint-Cyr (Coëtquidan), a French military academy.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was a member of a French press organization that focused on music halls, the circus, dance and the arts.

From 1982 to 1986, his telephone conversations with writer Jean-Edern Hallier were monitored as part of illegal wiretaps conducted during the presidency of François Mitterrand. In the late 1980s, he served as vice president of Amiic, a Geneva-based real estate investment organization. He was a lecturer at international meetings of the organization, which was dissolved in 1997. In the early 1990s, he contributed as a writer and art critic for the French magazine ''L'Amateur d'Art''. From 1988 to 1994, he was editor-in-chief for ''Le Quotidien de Paris''.

During the 1997 parliamentary elections, he served as Communications Director and as a member of the Mayor's Cabinet. Later that year, he published ''Le Chevallier à découvert'' (Laurens, Paris). In 1999, he co-produced ''Studies'' ( Chopin) recorded by Radoslav Kvapil. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Company Secretary of Mea Publications Limited in the United Kingdom. Since 2007, he has been a member of the World Grand Family of Lebanon (RJ Lebanon Club).

In 2009, Thiollet signed a petition in support of the film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. From 2009 to 2012, he worked as one of the ''France-Soir'' editors.

In October 2016, after dedicating a book about Jean-Edern Hallier to "the youth native from Euroland, zone F, the victim of an old criminal political ruling class", he denounced in an interview "the French crime, committed by a political class, from the left as from the right".

In 2020, his wife, Monique, ran as a candidate in Châtellerault's municipal elections with support from La République en Marche.

In 2025, he wrote the preface to "Présences", a collection of poems by Michèle Gabillas-Bazin.

Selected bibliography

* ''Hallier, chagrins d'amour'', with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2024.
* ''Hallier, tout feu tout flamme'', with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2023.
* ''Hallier en roue libre'', with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2022.
* ''Hallier, L'Edernel retour'', with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2021.
* ''Hallier, L'Homme debout'', with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2020.
* ''Hallier Edernellement vôtre'', with texts by Isabelle Coutant-Peyre and François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2019.
* ''Hallier ou l'Edernité en marche'', with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2018.
* ''Improvisation ''so'' piano'', with texts by Bruno Belthoise, Jean-Louis Lemarchand and François Roboth, Neva éditions, Paris, 2017.
* ''Hallier, l'Edernel jeune homme'', with texts by Gabriel Enkiri and François Roboth, Neva éditions, Paris, 2016.
* ''Créer ou reprendre un commerce'' (Create or take over a business), Vuibert Ed., Paris, 2011 (3rd ed).
* ''Bodream ou rêve de Bodrum'', Anagramme Ed., Paris, 2010.
* ''Carré d'Art: Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lord Byron, Salvador Dalí, Jean-Edern Hallier'', with texts by Anne-Élisabeth Blateau and François Roboth, Anagramme Ed., Paris, 2008.
* ''Les Risques du manager'', with A. Kibarian, Vuibert Ed., Paris, 2008.
* ''La Fiscalité immobilière pour tous'' (Property taxation for all), Vuibert Ed, Paris, 20017.
* ''Barbey d'Aurevilly'', with texts by Eugen Drewermann, Jean-Louis Christ and Bruno Bontempelli, H & D, 2006 () and 2007 (). With CDRom.
* Foreword to ''Willy, Colette et moi'' by Sylvain Bonmariage, Anagramme Ed., 2004 (reprint).
* ''Demain 2021'' — Jean-Claude Martinez (book-length interview), G. de Bouillon, 2004.
* ''Les Dessous d'une Présidence'', Anagramme Ed., 2002.
* ''Beau linge et argent sale'' – Fraude fiscale internationale et blanchiment des capitaux (Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion and Money Laundering), Anagramme Ed., 2002, .
* ''La Pensée unique'', collective work (with Jean Foyer), Economica/J. M. Chardon & D. Lensel Ed., 1998.
* ''Les baux sans peine'' (The leases without penalty), Axiome Ed., 1999.
* ''La Vie plurielle'' (Conjugal life. Types of union in the new legislative arena : information for all on their advantages and disadvantages), Axiome Ed., 1999.
* ''Le Chevallier à découvert'', Laurens Ed., 1998.
* ''Euro-CV'', Top Ed., 1997.
* ''L'Anti-Crise'', with M-F Guignard, Dunod, 1994.
* ''Os très primeiros meses num novo emprego'', with M-F Guignard, transl. Maria Mello, Biblioteca do desenvolivemento pessoal, , Mem Martins, 1993. (''Réussir ses trois premiers mois dans un nouveau poste'', Nathan, Paris, 1992. )
* ''Utrillo'', collective work, F. Birr Ed., 1982.

References

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1956 births
Living people
French art critics
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French essayists
21st-century French essayists
Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 alumni
People from Poitiers
People from Vienne (department)