Antoine Lefébure

Antoine Lefébure is a historian of the media and expert of technologies of the communication.

Born in 1950, Antoine Lefébure makes his secondary studies and develops a durable interest for the communication as an assistant of the radio ham of the Palais of Discovered the. After a hypokhâgne with Pasteur, it integrates Nanterre where, registered in history and economic scenes, it is mixed with the protest movement which exploded in May 1968. After a control of history on “Radio operator Paris 1940-1944” it spends one year to the department of communication of the University of Berkeley.

With the Sorbonne it finishes its doctorate of history on “the monopoly of Telecommunications in France” and creates a quarterly review, Interférences subtitled for a criticism of the apparatuses of communication? The review will be the crucible where find themselves impassioned of electronics and radio which engage a long-term fight against the monopoly of the waves. After several attempts at clandestine emissions, it receives the support of the friends of the ground and lance Green Radio, the first of the free radios of the FM.

Antoine Lefébure creates Association for the Release of the Waves (HELLO) to fight against the inculpations of comrades, the seizures of material and the jamming of the waves. This association battles of 1977 to 1981 for the radiophonic free expression. Several hundreds of free Radios emit regularly on the territory.

In 1980, Antoine Lefébure integrates the group Havas where it becomes responsible for new technologies. He gathers a team which will carry out the feasibility studies of the 4th chain with toll named soon Canal Plus. He becomes Directeur of the Development and lance the first experiments of telematics and data bank of the group.

In 1988, it creates its own council and survey firm, Technique Media Company, which will play a part of pioneer in the development of the automated information and the satellite images. In 1995, TMS becomes one of the first Web-agency creating of the important sites like that of Virgin, of the Prime Minister, the museum of Decorative Arts…

Since 2003, Antoine Lefébure undertakes in parallel an activity of author and consultant for the leading article of Internet sites. He intervenes regularly in the press, on television like C in the air (Fr5), Preuves with support (FR3) to treat use of new technologies.

Publications

Havas, mysteries of the capacity, Editions Grasset 1992.
secret Conversations of the French under the Occupation. Plon 1993.
Exploring photographers, unknown Territories 1850-1930, Editions the Discovery 2003.
disappeared Amazonia, Indians and explorers 1825-1930, Edtions the Discovery, 2005.
photographic Treasures of the Company of Geography, BNF/Glénat Editions, 2007

External bonds

Personal site
Saga of the free radios
Radios AOL
Blog of the Free Radios

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