Overview
- His death was confirmed by his family and by Sud Ouest, which said he died in Charente at the age of 81.
- For Sud Ouest Dimanche he wrote the weekly Paris-Province column from 1986 to 2022, becoming a familiar voice for regional readers.
- He won the Albert-Londres prize in 1972 after early reporting at Sud Ouest, then worked at Le Monde and later Le Nouvel Observateur.
- As a war correspondent he covered conflicts in places such as Biafra and Vietnam before broadening into essays and cultural commentary.
- A co-founder of Reporters Sans Frontières, he served as president from 1987 to 1993 and pursued publishing, television work, and roughly forty books.