Jean-Christmas Jeanneney

Jean-Christmas Jeanneney is a historian and politician French, born the April 2nd 1942 with Grenoble. He is the son of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and the grandson of Jules Jeanneney, two important figures of the French political life. The Jeanneney family draws her roots in Haute-Saône. He is also member of the scientific advice of the Institut François Mitterrand and stimulating of a radio program on France Culture.

Studies

After secondary studies in Grenoble, it joined the capital for its higher learning. Raise National university of the street of Ulm, it then studied with the Institut of political studies of Paris. It is doctor aggregate be-letters and of history.

Historian of the media

Jean-Christmas Jeanneney specialized in the history of the media, field in which it belongs to the pioneers. It was thus interested in the evolution of the Written press, the radio and the Télévision. He taught, until in 1977, with the Université of Paris X. He was also named University lecturer then, in 1979, Professor of the universities, with the Institut of political studies of Paris. It is especially there that it directed research in the history of the press.

Man of radio and television

He passed from the glance distancié to the participation in the media, in particular with the radio and the Télévision. He was in particular general president-director of Radio-France, of 1982 to 1986. Thereafter, he also worked for television channels, in particular the chain Histoire. Since 1999, it animates each week on France Culture a historiographic emission of glances and sociétal on the topicality, Sequence of tenses .

Political career

In policy, Jean-Christmas Jeanneney is close to the Socialist party.

1991 - 1992: Secretary of State to the Foreign trade (Government Edith Cresson)
1992 - 1993: Secretary of State to the Communication (Government Pierre Bérégovoy)
1992 - 1998: member of the district council of Franche-Comté

He is president of association Europartenaires with Elisabeth Guigou since 1998. He is also member of the Council of Orientation of association In Real-time .

Former president of the National library of France

Of 2002 in March 2007, Jean-Christmas Jeanneney was president of the National library of France, station to which it had been renewed in 2005. In this function, it particularly appeared in its offensive against the project, announced by Google in 2004, of massive Numérisation and setting in line of works preserved in four Anglo-Saxon Bibliothèque S. In an article published in Le Monde then a test When Google defies Europe: plea for a start (2005), it denounced the risk for the Cultural diversity to leave the monopoly to the project of a private business enterprise which grants a disproportionate weight to the English language and whose organization of the documents rests on the secret algorithms of the Search engine. It launched a call to a European counter-offensive, in the form of a Numeric library European, multilingual, free and resting on a transparent hierarchisation of the documents. This project having received the support of the European institutions, the BNF currently develops a prototype called Europeana, whose beta release was put in line in March 2007 at the time of the Salon of the book of Paris.

Bruno Racine was named president of the National library of France on March 28th, 2007 in the Council of Ministers, to replace Jean-Christmas Jeanneney reached by the age limit. This nomination took effect starting from April 2nd, 2007.

Selective bibliography

Jean-Christmas Jeanneney published works on the history of the media, other works historical and tests on various subjects. He also prefaced various works, which are not included in the following list.

François de Wendel in republic: money and the capacity (1914-1940) , thesis of Jean-Christmas Jeanneney published with the Threshold, Paris, 1976. ISBN 2-02-004410-2.
hidden Money: mediums of businesses and political powers in France of the XXe century , Beech, Paris, 1981. ISBN 2-213-00947-3.
Failure in Panurge: audio-visual public with the service of the difference , Threshold, Paris, 1986. ISBN 2-02-009238-7.
a history of the media, origins at our days, Points, Paris, 1990 (republished 4 times). ISBN 2-02-052887-8.
the Future comes by far , Seuil, Paris, 1994. ISBN 2-02-022648-0.
the Echo of the century: dictionary of the radio and television , in collaboration with Agnes Chauveau, Hatchet, Arte, the Fifth, Paris, 1999. ISBN 2-01-235276-6.
the Duel: a French passion (1789-1914) , Threshold, Paris, 2004. ISBN 2-02-065383-4.
Clemenceau : portrait of a free man , Mengès, Paris, 2005. ISBN 2-85620-455-4.
When Google defies Europe: plea for a start , Thousand and One Nights, Paris, 2005. ISBN 2-84205-912-3.

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