Pierre-Marie Doutrelant

Pierre-Marie Doutrelant (1941 in the Flandres -) is a Journaliste French and critical gastronomical.

It is formed with the University of journalism of Lille before integrating the Mail of the West in 1966.

In 1966, it enters to the Monde with the responsibility of cover the questions of Agriculture. Expressing definitely more its preference for the Reportage S on the ground that the Conference S or the Conference S of Brussels, it is essential quickly within the service economic on the point to become the chief-assistant in 1972 about it. But in 1974, it prefers to return to a function Reporter to the service of general information.

“Tenderly caustic, free compared to the Mondanité S, with the Institution S, the To be able S and the Idéologie S”, it has, according to Bruno Frappat, “of the ideas that it affected to regard as rustic” and a “benevolent Cynisme with regard to those which take their theological quarrels for the art of the conversation”. But badly at ease in a Daily where it does not feel not recognized with its right value, it agrees the proposal of Christiane Duparc to join the service “Our Time” of the Nouvel Observateur. In January 1977, it thus takes there charges some, the questions of agriculture and Environnement but also all that milked with the areas, as well on the level Touristique as Politique and Social. Enthusiastic support of the Organic farming, it denounces the misdeeds of the intensive breeding like the use of Hormone S (“doped Charolais”, September 27th 1980) and of animal Farines (“Of the Veau X gavés of Poisson S”, March 21st 1978). Also treating the questions of environment and ecological catastrophes , it is caught some with the Marine pollution (“Anguish of the Sea”, July 22nd 1978). But its cover of the areas leads it to deal with more direct political problems such as the regionalistic movements of Métropole and overseas (“the Cow-boy, the Canaque and the Gendarme”, January 19th 1981), interviewing on this subject the Secretary of State to DOM-TOM. It even comes from there, at the time of the legislative elections or municipal, to publish political articles on the local electoral situation. But, more than this purely political dimension, it is the social news in province which attracts its interest. It milked there thus work conditions (“Cayenne with Perpignan, January 31st 1977), Social movements and rise of the Unemployment. It also sometimes happens to him to leave the hexagonal topicality within the framework of prone tourist, to see even sometimes foreign Politics . Thus, until in 1979, it sometimes happens to him to treat the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, in particular around the question of the the Western Sahara for which it interview Jean Charbonnel. It does not remain about it less, that with the sport news and automobile, it especially sticks to make share its passion for the Vin and the good expensive one in many articles of which he draws from the books without concession for the modes and the fakers: Good wines and Others (the Threshold, 1976) and, ten years later, Good Kitchen and Others (the Threshold, 1986). It has then, since November 1985, joined the Express train to direct the Rubrique " there; portraits".

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