The Birth of a Journalist: The Journey of Jean Lebrun

The birth of a journalist

Born May 14, 1950 in Saint-Malo, Jean Lebrun grew up in the suburbs of Paris. His parents were then employees of the town hall of Épinay-sur-Seine, his mother as a janitor and his father as a gardener. All three live in company accommodation, an apartment “miserable, no toilets, peeling paint and oil stoves”. He began his higher education at the Sorbonne in May 1968, before obtaining his history aggregation in 1972. This passage to university was decisive for his career and marked his deep passion for history and research.

A life on the radio

It was in 1987 that Jean Lebrun took his first steps on the radio, for France Culture. He quickly became the main producer of the show Culture Matin. Until he turned sixty, he hosted and produced various shows, such as Pot au feu, Public worksor even out loud which he coordinates. In 2011, it was at France Inter that Jean Lebrun continued his career and became the producer of The Walk of History. More than ten years later, Jean Lebrun hangs up the microphone, with the wish today to embark on new projects without ever losing the link with the public.

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Bibliography

• John Lebrun, Here Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, ed. Blue around, 2021
• John Lebrun, Our Chanel, ed. Blue around, 2014
• Jean Lebrun, Isaure Pisani-Ferry, The Great Debates that Made France, ed. Flammarion, France Inter, 2014
• John Lebrun, Journalism in progress: chronicle of a craftsman, ed. Blue around, 2008
• John Lebrun, Campaign journalist, ed. Blue around, 2006

Sound references

• Archive on Saint-Malo, French NewspaperSeptember 28, 1950
• Archive of historian Alphonse Dupront, Thoughts on HistoryRTF , 2 October 1959
• Memories of Michelle Perrot, Emmanuel Laurentin, François Angelier, Marc Voinchet and Sanja Cindric about Jean Lebrun, at the microphone of Maïwenn Guiziou and Alexandre Manzanares
• Archive of a live broadcast, Pot au feuFrance Culture, December 14, 1999
• Show credits: Origami of Ron