Journalist and essayist, Thierry Deransart was secretary general of the editorial staff of Le Figaro Magazine for twelve years. Responsible for the entire editorial, from copy preparation to the final proof, including rewriting and editing, this cheerful companion knew how to be on all fronts. Those who crossed his path in his long professional career can, today, testify to his implacable eye when it came to tracking down fault, oblivion, implausibility in a text and his infinite love for the French language.
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Born on May 30, 1962. He studied at the Lycée Michel-de-Montaigne in Mulhouse, then at Sciences Po Strasbourg. Thierry Deransart obtained his press card at the age of 21 with Magazine Hebdo, a right-wing liberal weekly. The Mitterrandian era is rich for all those who like to scrap against the established disorder. That's a good thing. He loves powder, and already he stands out as much for the bite of his pen as for the depth of his references.
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Acutely looking at things
He found an excellent opportunity to deploy his talents by becoming editor-in-chief of the Nouvelles Calédoniennes at a time when the separatists and those who wanted the territory to remain in the Republic were confronting. Clashes that will reach their incandescence point with the taking of hostages in Ouvéa.
Back in Paris, Thierry Deransart joined Le Figaro in 1989 as editor of the media pages. This experience lasted three years and gave him a keen eye for the press, which led him to contribute to Francis Balle's essay The Mandarin and the Merchant. The right power of the media.
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He actively participated in the launch of InfoMatin as Chief Information Officer. This daily, created in 1994 and supported by the former boss of Canal+, André Rousselet, is firing on all cylinders about the triumphant balladuria. Its practical format and concise articles inspired many competing publications. It was on this occasion that Thierry Deransart met Éric Zemmour. It will be a decisive meeting for him.
After that, he became deputy editor-in-chief for five years and then senior reporter at Valeurs actuelles, before joining Figaro Magazine. His best professional years," he said.
Huge Reader
Thierry Deransart was an immense reader, which led him to resurrect the magazine Matulu for a time. His literary tastes knew no boundaries, ranging from Malcolm Lowry in Below the Volcano to the work of Murakami, "a man of three symbiotic cultures - Japanese, jazzy, Greek and therefore European, East Coast American." He devoted numerous articles to the latter in Le Figaro. No doubt he found in him the confirmation that one can only be singular by being plural. In one of his last messages, he introduced himself as a Lutheran with Shaivist tendencies, a pioneer member of Reconquest!, "enough to give our political analysts in the media a headache." One imagines him presenting his imaginary identity card with this bravado gesture that consisted of pulling up one of the locks that hid his forehead.
In fact, a long trip to India had a great impact on him, and he actively participated in Éric Zemmour's editorial and political activity during the presidential campaign. It was on his return to his beloved Alsace, whose forests he loved so much, that he decided to be baptized a Lutheran. To do this, he found a pastor who spoke Alsatian and Aramaic interchangeably.
He would have hated it to be written "died after a long illness." He spoke of his cancer, of the "crab," with such humor, hurled at it, mocked it, and burst out laughing. That big laugh that still resonates...