Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (29 September 1937 – 3 October 2023) was a French journalist.

Biography

Elkabbach was born to an Algerian Jewish family in

Oran Oran () is a major coastal city located in the northwest of Algeria. It is considered the second most important city of Algeria, after the capital, Algiers, because of its population and commercial, industrial and cultural importance. It is w ...

on 29 September 1937, then the prefecture of the ''

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d'Oran'' in

French Algeria French Algeria ( until 1839, then afterwards; unofficially ; ), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of History of Algeria, Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France. French rule lasted until ...

. He began his journalistic career in 1960 as a radio correspondent in

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, but having taken part in the strikes of

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, he was sidelined and sent to

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

. Elkabbach would later spend time in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

, Germany, before venturing into television news in 1970. From 1993 to 1996 he served as president of

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and

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, from 1999 to 2009 he was president of the television station

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, and he was at the helm of

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from 2005 to 2008. Elkabbach presented ''Bibliothèque Médicis'' on Public Sénat, during which he interviewed an eclectic mix of international literati, political leaders, intellectuals, and historians. Elkabbach was the father of successful actress

Emmanuelle Bach Emmanuelle Bach (born Emanuelle Anouk El Kabbach; 30 May 1968) is a French film and television actress. History She is the daughter of Holda Trenkle ("Holda Fonteyn") and journalist Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. At the age of 19, she abandoned he ...

. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach died in

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on 3 October 2023, at the age of 86.

Works

Books

* (with

Édouard Balladur Édouard Balladur (; born 2 May 1929) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France under François Mitterrand from 29 March 1993 to 17 May 1995. He unsuccessfully ran for president in the 1995 French presidential election, co ...

) * (with Nicole Avril) *

Television

*''

François Mitterrand François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France. As a former First ...

: conversations avec un président'', documentary filmed between April 1993 and June 1994, broadcast on France 2 in May 2001 in five episodes

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