He was a journalist, theater man and polemicist among others.
Philippe Tesson, father of writer Sylvain Tesson, died on Thursday at the age of 94, said the Théâtre de Poche-Montparnasse in Paris, which he directed.
The former journalist died at his home in Chatou (Yvelines) on Wednesday, said the jury for the Interallié prize, which he chaired, confirming information from
Le Figaro
.
Philippe Tesson had been the editor of the legendary newspaper "Combat" from 1960 to 1974, before founding his own newspaper, the "Quotidien de Paris", which he directed for twenty years (1974-1994).
With this liberal daily, support of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing before opposing the Socialists and François Mitterrand, he had set foot in the stirrup for many personalities: Éric Zemmour, Jean-Marc Sylvestre, Catherine Pgard, Claire Chazal…
A theater lover
He had left the newspaper in 1994, two years before it ceased publication for financial reasons.
In the 1990s, a wider audience had discovered his verve and his blue eyes on TV sets, where he intervened as a polemicist and willingly took the posture of the assumed "reaction".
“Today, I am resolutely on the right.
At 90, we are no longer on the left.
Even Mélenchon will change ”, laughed this passionate about politics, friend of Pierre Mauroy (his classmate at the college of Cateau-Cambrésis) and declared support of Emmanuel Macron in 2017.
His other passion was the theatre.
He had notably written as a theatrical critic in Le Canard enchaîné or Le Figaro and in 2011 bought the Théâtre de Poche-Montparnasse, which he directed with his daughter, Stéphanie Tesson.
Father of two other children, the writer Sylvain Tesson and the journalist Daphné Tesson, Philippe Tesson was born into a bourgeois family in Picardy, in Wassigny (Aisne) on March 1, 1928. With his doctor wife, Marie-Claude Millet (1942- 2014), he also founded “Le Quotidien du Médecin” and “Le Quotidien du Pharmacien”.
He continued to chair the jury for the Interallié prize until the end, which he had joined in 1993.
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