Roger Fressoz

Roger Fressoz , alias Andre Ribaud , (born in 1921 with the Compote in Savoy, dead on March 26th, 1999) is a Journaliste French, former director of the Canard connected .

Origin

Savoyard, born in 1921, former student of the college diocesan of Chambéry, Our-Lady-of it the Villette. He prepared the National university in khâgne with the Lycée Henri-Iv. The threat of the STO (Service of obligatory work) the constrained one to give up this project in 1944. He is bachelor of arts.

Journalist

He makes his beginnings of journalist in 1944 like criticism Cinéma with Cordées , but really begins in 1945 at the Parisian office from the Union from Rheims , where it remains until in 1967. With the Union , as with the Independent one of Perpignan , or with Franc-tireur , it is specialized in the political echo and the parliamentary heading.

It enters as journalist to the Canard connected in 1952 after some measuring rods carried out previously. He is the writer, starting from September 21st, 1960, and until June 1969, of a Pastiche of the memorialist S of, entitled “ the Court ”. He writes, in the style of the Cardinal of Retz and the Duc of Saint-Simon, of the articles where are denounced the militarization of the mode, the solitary exercise of the capacity, the restriction of public freedoms, the control of information. Illustrated by Roland Moisan, which drew decorations of Versailles and courtiers with wig, this heading, with died of the Général de Gaulle, became “ Regency ”.

In December 1969, with died of Ernest Reynaud, said R.Tréno, Roger Fressoz takes the direction of connected Duck. It is under its direction that the weekly magazine evolves to the denunciation of the various scandals which will splash the capacity: the Business Aranda, the Business Putlog-hole, “Micro of the Duck”… and the Business of diamonds of Valery Giscard d'Estaing. It transformed Duck into newspaper of investigation and multiplied its diffusion by five. The Duck passed from 6 to 8 pages. It leaves the direction of the Canard connected in 1992, passing the hand with Michel Gaillard.

Quotations

“One is more extremely when one is polished. ”
“Mr. de Bré (…) was a man of a poor size, enough roll of figure, the inserted eye, the low mine, the black hair, strong boy of order, with a kind of stiffness, for which riens continuously was hydres, the moral and sententious matter, the air full with severity and to be made fear humbler with proportion than it was itself lower in front of the King” will have recognized the portrait with the vitriol of Michel Debré.

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