If all the journalists and theatergoers who are indebted to Philippe Tesson attend his funeral mass, no church in Paris, even Notre-Dame, will be able to contain them all.
Whether at “Combat”, at the “Quotidien de Paris”, first and second editions, or even at “Avant-Scène Théâtre”, the little magazine he bought after the disappearance of the “Quotidien”, several generations of journalists have learned their trade from him.
He was a journalist through and through. Of an insatiable and all-out curiosity. After Sciences-Po, he became secretary of parliamentary debates at the National Assembly. Henri Smadja, new owner of the newspaper “Combat”, being in search of a “feather”, he hires the young Tesson. It does not take long to right the old diary of Albert Camus. Who becomes fiercely anti-Gaullist during the Algerian war. This is the time when Tesson flirts with those he will call ” the soldiers lost » : Jouhaud, Soustelle, etc.
After 1968, “Combat” finding fewer and fewer readers, Tesson offers Smadja to take some
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