1. Jean-Edern Hallier was a French writer, critic and editor.
21 Facts About Jean-Edern Hallier
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The son of World War I French General Andre Jean-Edern Hallier, Jean Jean-Edern Hallier was born in 1936.
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Jean-Edern Hallier was baptised in the village of Edern, whose name he later added to his first name Jean.
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Jean-Edern Hallier, returning to France after World War II, first studied at the Pierre-qui-vire convent and then at a Paris lycee and at the University of Oxford.
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Jean-Edern Hallier travelled extensively, even getting shipwrecked in the Persian Gulf, and in 1960 founded the literary review Tel Quel along with Philippe Sollers and Jean-Rene Hughenin.
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Jean-Edern Hallier then worked as an editor for publishing house Plon and completed a second novel, Le Grand ecrivain, in 1967.
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Deeply stirred by the 1968 student riots in Paris, Jean-Edern Hallier disclosed left-wing political views in the partly autobiographical La Cause des peuples.
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Jean-Edern Hallier engaged into politics full-time and started the first, leftist version of his paper, L'Idiot international, partly funded at first by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
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Jean-Edern Hallier traveled to Chile after Pinochet's 1973 coup, carrying funds gathered by Regis Debray.
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Jean-Edern Hallier was supposed to hand the money out to the Chilean resistance.
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Jean-Edern Hallier progressively broke up with the left-wing after this event.
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Jean-Edern Hallier broke with the literary style of the nouveau roman with Chagrins d'amour, which was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt in 1974.
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Jean-Edern Hallier hosted one of the first pirate radio stations in 1977, "Radio Verte", close to the ecology movement.
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Jean-Edern Hallier was suspected of simulating his own kidnapping in 1982, and of organizing a bombing in Regis Debray's building, a suspicion recently confirmed by Regis Debray and Gilles Menage, who worked for President Francois Mitterrand in the Elysee cell involved in the wiretap scandal.
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Jean-Edern Hallier committed, it was alleged, less serious "attacks", such as setting fire to Francoise Mallet-Joris's doormat.
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Politically, Jean-Edern Hallier was successively a Maoist, an admirer of Fidel Castro, while at the same time getting close to Jacques Chirac, and supported Pinochet after his return from his expedition to Chile.
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Jean-Edern Hallier's apartment was burned down in an arson attack.
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In 1991, L'Idiot international was one of the French newspapers which opposed participation to the Gulf War, and Jean-Edern Hallier went to Iraq to cover the events.
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Jean-Edern Hallier was sued for defamation in articles published in L'Idiot international by Jack Lang as well as other people.
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Jean-Edern Hallier never defended himself during the trials, and never went to Appeal Court; he had to auction off his flat in order to pay damages to Bernard Tapie who had successfully charged him with defamation.
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Jean-Edern Hallier died from a cerebral haemorrhage after falling from his bicycle in Deauville in 1997.