Dear subscribers,
Philippe Tesson, journalist, political commentator, dramatic critic, left us on the eve of his 95th birthday on Wednesday.
"A man of fire and feather, culture and spirit"
, sums up
Bertrand de Saint-Vincent, deputy editor of
Le Figaro.
He was a kind of Balzacian figure of the time, who one might think came straight out of the novel
Illusions Perdus
.
The life of Sylvain Tesson is above all a story of newspapers.
First at
Combat
, of which he became editor-in-chief at the age of 32, then at
Quotidien de Paris.
“
A whole generation of journalists experienced a form of enchantment thanks to him in his newspapers.
Philippe Tesson reigned by the magic of his ambivalence.
Taking from each being a little of his light, of his secret aspirations, he redistributed them in a larger project.
He coordinated the anxieties, orchestrated the impulses, stimulated the subtle springs buried in the folds of the soul.
Feeling everything at the same time, brewing emotions...
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