Around him, Jacques Martin had gathered Pierre Bonte, Stéphane Collaro, Daniel Prévost, Robert Lassus, Pierre Desproges… and Piem.
Malicious columnist of the news of the 1970s within the team of the "Little Rapporteur", the cartoonist and satirist died Thursday, at the age of 97 years.
"He's smart, he decided to leave on his birthday, it was someone amazing, our father," cartoonist Barrigue, the first of his 7 children, told AFP.
“Press cartoonist, humanist”, Piem, whose real name is Pierre Georges Marie de Barrigue de Montvallon, had also “worked for 36 years at Figaro, then at the Cross,” his family recalls in a press release.
Born on November 12, 1923 in Saint-Etienne, and although coming from a family that had belonged to the nobility of dress of Aix-en-Provence, Piem clearly displayed his ideas of the left.
A graduate of the National School of Fine Arts, he liked to laugh at his artist name in the following way: "Prodigious, Irresistible, Extraordinary, Modest".
He had gained notoriety by participating in Jacques Martin's program, "Le Petit Rapporteur", a Sunday meeting broadcast live on TF1 between January 1975 and June 1976. He produced "the little week" under the eyes of viewers. de Piem ”, a very popular cartoon press review.
Dean of the band at the top of his 51 years, the cartoonist was at the time nicknamed "the ancestor" by his accomplices on the show.
The concept of the little Rapporteur was then taken up by the same team on Antenne 2, under the name “La Lorgnette”, between 1977 and 1978.
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Piem had lived in retirement for many years in Touraine, in the small town of Notre-Dame-d'Oé.
He was commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.
