Jean-Pierre Thiollet (; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist. He is also affiliated with the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, a European trade union.
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).
In 1978, he was admitted to Saint-Cyr (Coëtquidan), a French military academy.
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. 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.
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 àdécouvert (Laurens, Paris). In 1999, he co-produced Studies (Chopin) recorded by Radoslav Kvapil. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Company Secretary of Mea Publications Limited in the United Kingdom. Since 2007, he has been a member of the World Grand Family of Lebanon (RJ Lebanon Club).
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. From 2009 to 2012, he worked as one of the France-Soir editors.
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".
In 2020, his wife, Monique, ran as a candidate in Châtellerault's municipal elections with support from La République en Marche.. In March 2026, she was elected municipal councillor and community councillor , then appointed deputy mayor .
In 2025, he wrote the preface to "Présences", a collection of poems by Michèle Gabillas-Bazin.
Selected bibliography
- Hallier de A àZ. L'esprit àl'oeuvre, volume 1, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2025.
- Hallier, chagrins d'amour, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2024.
- Hallier, tout feu tout flamme, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2023.
- Hallier en roue libre, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2022.
- Hallier, L'Edernel retour, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2021.
- Hallier, L'Homme debout, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2020.
- Hallier Edernellement vôtre, with texts by Isabelle Coutant-Peyre and François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2019.
- Hallier ou l'Edernité en marche, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2018.
- Improvisation so piano, with texts by Bruno Belthoise, Jean-Louis Lemarchand and François Roboth, Neva éditions, Paris, 2017.
- Hallier, l'Edernel jeune homme, with texts by Gabriel Enkiri and François Roboth, Neva éditions, Paris, 2016.
- Créer ou reprendre un commerce (Create or take over a business), Vuibert Ed., Paris, 2011 (3rd ed).
- Bodream ou rêve de Bodrum, Anagramme Ed., Paris, 2010.
- Carré d'Art: Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lord Byron, Salvador DalÃÂ, Jean-Edern Hallier, with texts by Anne-ÃÂlisabeth Blateau and François Roboth, Anagramme Ed., Paris, 2008.
- Les Risques du manager, with A. Kibarian, Vuibert Ed., Paris, 2008.
- La Fiscalité immobilière pour tous (Property taxation for all), Vuibert Ed, Paris, 20017.
- Barbey d'Aurevilly, with texts by Eugen Drewermann, Jean-Louis Christ and Bruno Bontempelli, H & D, 2006 () and 2007 (). With CDRom.
- Foreword to Willy, Colette et moi by Sylvain Bonmariage, Anagramme Ed., 2004 (reprint).
- Demain 2021 â Jean-Claude Martinez (book-length interview), G. de Bouillon, 2004.
- Les Dessous d'une Présidence, Anagramme Ed., 2002.
- Beau linge et argent sale â Fraude fiscale internationale et blanchiment des capitaux (Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion and Money Laundering), Anagramme Ed., 2002, .
- La Pensée unique, collective work (with Jean Foyer), Economica/J. M. Chardon & D. Lensel Ed., 1998.
- Les baux sans peine (The leases without penalty), Axiome Ed., 1999.
- La Vie plurielle (Conjugal life. Types of union in the new legislative arena : information for all on their advantages and disadvantages), Axiome Ed., 1999.
- Le Chevallier àdécouvert, Laurens Ed., 1998.
- Euro-CV, Top Ed., 1997.
- L'Anti-Crise, with M-F Guignard, Dunod, 1994.
- Os très primeiros meses num novo emprego, with M-F Guignard, transl. Maria Mello, Biblioteca do desenvolivemento pessoal, , Mem Martins, 1993. (Réussir ses trois premiers mois dans un nouveau poste, Nathan, Paris, 1992. )
- Utrillo, collective work, F. Birr Ed., 1982.
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