Pierre Foglia

Pierre Foglia (November 30th, 1940 -) is a Journaliste of opinion Québécois. Regarded as the most known chronicler of the daily newspapers of Quebec, it is published since 1972 in the daily newspaper the Press.

Personal life

Born parents Italy NS, Carlo (1896-1993) and Ambrosina (1902-1982), which moved in France in the area of Champagne before its Naissance, Pierre Foglia leaves for the California at the age 15 years when it meets an young girl of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. The couple settles thereafter with Quebec where they had two children.

Beginnings

Coldly left its military service with Algiers, Foglia passes accidentally by the Canada to go in Australia. It will be employed in a Imprimerie where it sat as typographer and of corrector of tests before leaving to Chicoutimi, with the Saguenay. It survivor two weekly magazines local, the Headlight of Chicoutimi-North and the Watchtower of Bagotville, which it stuffs of Publicité, goes up and puts on page. At that time, Pierre Foglia writes yet only as a dilettante, having fun to take again the tone lampoonist of his spiritual cousins of the Canard connected .

Always in the Years 1960, a citizen fell by chance on the scandalous writings and savagely anticlericals of called Foglia, published by innocent the Journal of Sherbrooke . Open letters in the other newspapers and protests near the owner of the newspaper follow, a Lebanese salesman of shoes, astonished to learn that its advertizing duck was sometimes read before being thrown.

Pierre Foglia will be then employed by the Fatherland in the middle of the years 1960 then by the Montreal-Morning , one of the daily newspapers montréalais important of the time, where it is pointed out by a long interview of Fanfreluche, one… Racehorse.

In the Press

In 1972, it makes its entry with the newspaper which always employs it, the Press, with Montreal, where its articles, which often treat anything and often of sport, cause a true revolution.

It leaves the section of the sports, to which it has been affected for five years, in 1977, to become head of division of the section today “Food”, female pages of the Press . In 1978 one entrusts page to him 5 of the first book. Since then, it is one of the most known chroniclers and most respected in Canada. He wrote more: 2000 chronicles in some 15 years. Its style is single and its influence, enormous. The sales figures of the Press are usually higher the days of the week when its chronicles are published.

He is especially recognized for his spiritual comments on through Québécois company. Although it is not for a long time any more affected with the sports with the Press, it frequently tackles the subject of cycling, acted already as correspondent with the Tour de France and is affected with the cover of the Olympic Games.

Foglia and cycling

Large amateur of bicycle, practitioner himself cycling like leisure, Pierre Foglia holds a log book on the Tour de France cyclist with the profit of the readers of the same newspaper. A collection of its chronicles cyclists, the Turn of Foglia was published in 2004. Except this book, he always refused that its chronicles are gathered and published in bookstore.

He wrote several chronicles on the cyclist Québécois Genevieve Jeanson, which took share with the Olympic Games.

Anecdotes

One of the most known chronicles of Pierre Foglia is that or it had treated stimulating the Michele Richard, high-speed motorboat local of a doubtful taste and prima donna notorious, of “East-German swimmer” and “mower”.

It appears, although it is defended some, that it resembles its character of chronicle. That it can be as stupid and malicious in the life as in the Press. That it has a character of dog and a gold heart. That the hell, it is to be with the restaurant with Foglia which did not like its Calf sweetbread. That it is rotted with the Télévision. That it always rolls as an old woman " Minoune " (Québécois term to indicate an old car). That, to give pleasure with an old buddy felquist, it would have already transported a bomb in its car. That almost all the daily newspapers of Quebec offered a job to him but which it is “too well in its slippers with the Press”. That he walked a long time to bicycle IN the newspaper office of the Press. That he is discovered a fatal disease per week. That it can be sulky his friends for six months and even a year for trifles and make them " crises of commère".

At the beginning of the Years 1990, its relation sulfurous and very mediatized with the young singer Joe Bocan, 17 years its benjamine, was the subject of documentary the " To like old, like mieux".

His/her son, Manual Foglia, was already participating in the emission the race destination world , where a dozen young scenario writers amateurs were to produce a report per week in the countries of their choice, having a budget allocated by Radio-Canada, which télédiffusait the emission. A few years later, it was briefly to defer for the satirical data transmission the end of the world is at seven hours .

In 1998, a Net surfer of co.-Foy put on line several chronicles of Pierre Foglia, as a homage to the chronicler. It however had to close its site, however non-profit-making, for questions of royalties.

Beginning 2005, Pierre Foglia exchanged a war of words with the chronicler Franco Nuovo, of the Journal of Montreal, daily competitor of the Press .

Quotations

“I already said that I will never publish collection of my chronicles; on the other hand, I would have less objection to publish the little story of some of these chronicles. I will not do it either because I like to better do bicycle”. (Pierre Foglia, the Press , October 19th, 1999).

“When a deputy told another deputy to line the Turn of CN in the Bottom, why me, to listen to them, I am obliged to wear jacket and tie?” (Pierre Foglia, unknown date).

“can one, in the life, triper on anything, without being made a little shit to learn it? ” (Pierre Foglia, “To teach the disorder of the things”, the Press , Montreal, on Thursday, November 4, 1999.)

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