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Jean d'Indy, the leap-year press man, director of La Bougie du sapeur

2024-02-29T06:16:36.514Z

Highlights: Every February 29, since 1980, La Bougie du sapeur has been published. An atypical and funny periodical whose director is a colorful personality from the horse racing world. "We have the rubric of Le Figaro. We go out the night before like Le Monde. And the newspaper has the format of Libération,” he boasts in front of his computer screen. Part of the profits from which will be donated to a house dedicated to autistic children.


PORTRAIT - Every February 29, since 1980, La Bougie du sapeur has been published. An atypical and funny periodical whose director is a colorful personality from the horse racing world.


Every four years, Jean d'Indy gets a big head.

He’s the one who says it!

Andy Warhol promised fifteen minutes of fame in a lifetime, for the director of

La Bougie du sapeur

, the day of glory returns every February 29 when his satirical journal Red and Yellow is published.

With his pocket square, his moccasins and his colorful socks, this sixty-year-old, mirrored wardrobe, charming and joker, then runs interviews to present this atypical and funny newspaper whose publication date requires publication every four years, when the year is a leap year.

“We have the rubric of Le

Figaro

.

We go out the night before like

Le Monde

.

And the newspaper has the format of

Libération,” he boasts in front of his computer screen, in what serves as his editorial office.

Here, a few hundred meters from the Bois de Boulogne, the publishing director of

La Bougie

has plastered twenty pages of the newspaper, part of the profits from which will be donated to a house dedicated to autistic children...

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Source: lefigaro

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