Christian Génicot

Christian Génicot (born in 1939 with Villeneuve-the-Garenne and deceased with Saint-Lo the November 24th 2005) is a Journaliste French.

Biography

Christian Génicot intends itself first of all for a career in the Chanson. In the the Sixties, it creates and animates a cabaret of song, street of the Seine with Paris, and records a disc orchestrated by François Rauber and sponsored by Jean Ferrat. Entered, in 1964, as journalist with Radio operator Monte Carlo in Paris, it continues to sing in the cabarets of Left bank.

The years 70, it enters to Ouest-France to cover the problems of education there. In 1976, wishing to live " with the vert" with its family, he asks a station in area. It will be Saint-Lo, in the English Channel. During five years, it will try to reform the way of doing the " locale". Then he resigns to create his own magazine, Manche Magazine , in 1981.

Manche Magazine is transformed the following year into Normandy - Magazine and covers the Basse-Normandie (Manche, Calvados and Orne). In 1988, it extends to the High-Normandy (Seine-Maritime and the Eure). When, in 1989, the English county of Hampshire is twinned with Basse-Normandie, Christian decides that its magazine must accompany this European step and become bilingual. The meeting of an excellent translator allows the birth of a magazine horse on two countries and two languages.

Normandy Magazine publishes special issues regularly: " 'Writers of Normandie" , " Painters in Normandie" (and its english language version, " Painters in Normandy"), and of the bilingual special issues (" On the steps of William the Conqueror " , " Normandy 1944, with the correspondents of guerre" , " Citizen Tocqueville").

Ghost with his first loves, Christian Génicot records in 2001 CD of songs which it had composed, " 6 Songs for Normandie" , always with for orchestrator François Rauber.

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