Luc Le Vaillant (born 1958,

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) is a French journalist. Since 2000, he runs the "Portrait" section of the daily ''

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''.

Biography

The son of a general practitioner and a mother professor of Italian and French, he is the eldest of a family of six children. He spent his childhood at

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where he became passionate about

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ...

, leading him to frequent the French Olympic team.Delphine Le Goff
« Luc Le Vaillant, dandy libertaire »
on ', 18 October 2012Gwénaëlle Loaëc
« Luc Le Vaillant : tireur d’élites »
on '' Bretons (magazine)'', 1 June 2009 After studying philosophy at Brest and the Sorbonne, he graduated from the

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of Paris in 1984, and began his career in sailing magazines. He was director of the French Committee for the

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presided by

Jean Glavany Jean Glavany (born 14 May 1949 in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) and former Minister. From 1981 to 1988, Glavany was head of cabinet of President François Mitterrand François Maurice Adrien Mari ...

and then joined the cabinet of Louis Le Pensec, Minister of the DOM-TOM, to write his speeches. In 1990, Luc Le Vaillant joined the sports department of ''Libération'' and in 1995 the "Portrait" section of which he became responsible five years later. Since January 2013, he has been holding a column entitled "Ré / jouissances" every Tuesday. In 1998, he received the

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in the press category.Prix Albert-Londres pour ''Libération''. Deuxième prix pour le journal en deux ans
sur ''Libération'', 20 mai 1998.

Prizes and awards

* 1997: Prix Mumm * 1998:

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