Erik Emptaz is a journalist.

Old of the newspaper Combat , it enters to the Canard connected in 1978. It is responsible for quarterly the the Files of the Duck , then replaces Gabriel Macé with the head of the drafting as a chief with Claude Angeli 1990. It writes the leading article each week.

Publications

• Curse of the Jellyfish , Grasset, 2005. Novel on the incredible history of the frigate the Jellyfish whose shipwreck off the coasts of Mauritania in July 1816 was at the origin of the abandonment on a raft of almost 150 men, of which 15 only survived and who inspired the celebrates table Géricault.
• 1981 , Grasset, 2007. Novel on the come to power of François Mitterrand, and the atmosphere of effervescence which follows its accession to the capacity. In the procession which accompanies Mitterrand in the Pantheon, Louis Husson, wire of a banking rich person which organizes the capital flight, meeting Élise Pomereu, young in charge of studies at Attali. Short elects receptions in cocktails, Louis, him, runs after Élise.