Jean-Pierre Thiollet

Jean-Pierre Thiollet (French: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ tjɔlɛ]; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist. He is also affiliated with the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions,^[1] a European trade union.^[2]

Jean-Pierre Thiollet
Born	(1956-12-09) 9 December 1956 (age 68) Poitiers, France
Occupation	Writer, columnist
Language	French
Alma mater	Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3
Notable works	Sax, Mule & Co (2004) Je m'appelle Byblos (2005) Barbey d'Aurevilly (2006) Carré d'Art : Byron, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dalí, Hallier (2008) Bodream (2010) Piano ma non solo (2012), Hallier, l'Edernel jeune homme (2016)

Career

Thiollet attended a school in Châtellerault, in Poitiers he attended classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles and acquired a degree in Parisian universities (Pantheon-Sorbonne University, University of Paris III:Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris-Sorbonne University).^[3]

In 1978, he was admitted to Saint-Cyr (Coëtquidan), a French military academy.^[4]

During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was a member of a French press organization that focused on music halls, the circus, dance and the arts.

From 1982 to 1986, his telephone conversations with writer Jean-Edern Hallier were monitored as part of illegal wiretaps conducted during the presidency of François Mitterrand.^[5] In the late 1980s, he served as vice president of Amiic, a Geneva-based real estate investment organization. He was a lecturer at international meetings of the organization, which was dissolved in 1997. In the early 1990s, he contributed as a writer and art critic for the French magazine L'Amateur d'Art. From 1988 to 1994, he was editor-in-chief for Le Quotidien de Paris.^[6]

During the 1997 parliamentary elections, he served as Communications Director and as a member of the Mayor's Cabinet. Later that year, he published Le Chevallier à découvert (Laurens, Paris).^[7] In 1999, he co-produced Studies (Chopin) recorded by Radoslav Kvapil.^[8] From 1999 to 2001, he was the Company Secretary of Mea Publications Limited in the United Kingdom.^[9][10] Since 2007, he has been a member of the World Grand Family of Lebanon (RJ Lebanon Club).^[11]

In 2009, Thiollet signed a petition in support of the film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.^[12] From 2009 to 2012, he worked as one of the France-Soir editors.^[13]

In October 2016, after dedicating a book about Jean-Edern Hallier to "the youth native from Euroland, zone F, the victim of an old criminal political ruling class", he denounced in an interview "the French crime, committed by a political class, from the left as from the right".^[14]

In 2020, his wife, Monique, ran as a candidate in Châtellerault's^[15] municipal elections with support from La République en Marche.^[16]

In 2025, he wrote the preface to "Présences", a collection of poems by Michèle Gabillas-Bazin.^[17]

Selected bibliography

• Hallier, chagrins d'amour, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2024.ISBN 978-2-35055-313-9
• Hallier, tout feu tout flamme, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2023.ISBN 978-2-35055-309-2
• Hallier en roue libre, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2022.ISBN 978-2-35055-305-4
• Hallier, L'Edernel retour, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2021.ISBN 978-2-35055-295-8
• Hallier, L'Homme debout, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2020.ISBN 978-2-35055-285-9
• Hallier Edernellement vôtre, with texts by Isabelle Coutant-Peyre and François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2019. ISBN 978-2-35055-273-6
• Hallier ou l'Edernité en marche, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2018. ISBN 978-2-35055-247-7
• Improvisation so piano, with texts by Bruno Belthoise, Jean-Louis Lemarchand and François Roboth, Neva éditions, Paris, 2017. ISBN 978-2-35055-228-6
• Hallier, l'Edernel jeune homme, with texts by Gabriel Enkiri and François Roboth, Neva éditions, Paris, 2016. ISBN 978-2-35055-217-0
• Créer ou reprendre un commerce (Create or take over a business), Vuibert Ed., Paris, 2011 (3rd ed). ISBN 978-2-7117-6462-4
• Bodream ou rêve de Bodrum, Anagramme Ed., Paris, 2010. ISBN 978-2-35035-279-4
• Carré d'Art: Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lord Byron, Salvador Dalí, Jean-Edern Hallier, with texts by Anne-Élisabeth Blateau and François Roboth, Anagramme Ed., Paris, 2008. ISBN 978-235035-189-6^[18]
• Les Risques du manager, with A. Kibarian, Vuibert Ed., Paris, 2008. ISBN 978-2-7117-8734-0
• La Fiscalité immobilière pour tous (Property taxation for all), Vuibert Ed, Paris, 20017.ISBN 978-2-7117-8769-2
• Barbey d'Aurevilly, with texts by Eugen Drewermann, Jean-Louis Christ and Bruno Bontempelli, H & D, 2006 (ISBN 2-914266-06-5) and 2007 (ISBN 2 914 266 08 1). With CDRom. ISBN 2-914266-06-5
• Foreword to Willy, Colette et moi by Sylvain Bonmariage, Anagramme Ed., 2004 (reprint). ISBN 2-914571-60-7
• Demain 2021 — Jean-Claude Martinez (book-length interview), G. de Bouillon, 2004. ISBN 9782841911615
• Les Dessous d'une Présidence, Anagramme Ed., 2002. ISBN 2-914571-14-3
• Beau linge et argent sale – Fraude fiscale internationale et blanchiment des capitaux (Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion and Money Laundering), Anagramme Ed., 2002, ISBN 2-914571-17-8.
• La Pensée unique, collective work (with Jean Foyer), Economica/J. M. Chardon & D. Lensel Ed., 1998. ISBN 2-7178-3745-0
• Les baux sans peine (The leases without penalty), Axiome Ed., 1999. ISBN 978-2844620408
• La Vie plurielle (Conjugal life. Types of union in the new legislative arena : information for all on their advantages and disadvantages), Axiome Ed., 1999. ISBN 2-8446203-61^[19]
• Le Chevallier à découvert, Laurens Ed., 1998. ISBN 2-911838-51-3^[20]
• Euro-CV, Top Ed., 1997. ISBN 2-87731-131-7
• L'Anti-Crise, with M-F Guignard, Dunod, 1994. ISBN 2-10-002401-9
• Os très primeiros meses num novo emprego, with M-F Guignard, transl. Maria Mello, Biblioteca do desenvolivemento pessoal, Publicações Europa-América [pt], Mem Martins, 1993. ISBN 972-1-03683-8 (Réussir ses trois premiers mois dans un nouveau poste, Nathan, Paris, 1992. ISBN 2-09-176362-4)^[21]
• Utrillo, collective work, F. Birr Ed., 1982. ISBN 2-85754-009-4