Jean Daniel

Jean Daniel

Jean Daniel Bensaid (21 July 1920 – 19 February 2020) was a French journalist and author. He was the founder and executive editor of Le Nouvel Observateur weekly now known as L'Obs. Daniel was born in Blida, Algeria, as the youngest of 11 children. His father, Jules Bensaid, was a flour miller. Jean Daniel attended the University of Algiers before the Second World War. During the war, he was part of a resistance group that aided the liberation of Algiers, and he participated in the Normandy landings as part of the Free French forces led by Philippe Leclerc. Following the war, Daniel attended Sorbonne University (studying philosophy) and worked for Félix Gouin as a speechwriter. Daniel was a Jewish humanist in the tradition of the French Left. He was a colleague and friend of Albert Camus, a fellow pied-noir (French-Algerian). In La prison juive: Humeurs et méditations d'un témoin (The Jewish Prison), Daniel argued that prosperous, assimilated Jews in the west live in a self-imposed prison made of up of three invisible walls: the idea of the Chosen People, Holocaust remembrance, and support for Israel. "Having trapped themselves inside these walls...," wrote Adam Shatz in describing the book, "they were less able to see themselves clearly, or to appreciate the suffering of others -- particularly the Palestinians living behind the 'separation fence'." Daniel was a member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. In 1947 Daniel co-founded the Caliban magazine, which ran until 1951. Following it closure Daniel became a teacher, until he was hired as a reporter by L'Express in 1956. Daniel covered the Algerian War for L'Express; he was sympathetic to the independence cause and received death threats from the Organisation armée secrète (OAS). He was interviewing Fidel Castro in Havana as news came through of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Castro said "es una mala noticia" ("this is bad news"), perceiving that he would be blamed in some quarters for the assassination. Kennedy had given Daniel a message to pass to Castro, which said that the U.S. could respect a "nationalist, even communist" government of Cuba, but could not relate to a country that was "indentured" to the Soviet Union. He co-founded the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur in 1964, which had existed since 1950 as L'Observateur politique, économique et littéraire (1950–53), L'Observateur aujourd'hui (1953–54) and France Observateur (1954–64). The 1964 incarnation of the magazine was when Jean Daniel and Claude Perdriel took over renaming the magazine and starting its best known phase under the name Le Nouvel Observateur as a weekly. Since then it has been published by Groupe Nouvel Observateur on a weekly basis and has covered political, business and economic news in France and internationally. On 23 October 2014, the magazine was renamed L'Obs. Source: Article "Jean Daniel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title : Jean Daniel
  • Popularity : 0.366
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1920-07-21
  • Place of Birth : Blida, Algeria
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  • Also Known As : Jean Daniel Bensaïd
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Jean Daniel Movies

  • 1959
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    Stop the Massacre

    Stop the Massacre

    1 1959 HD

    Promoted to wrestling champion by chance, Tonin, known as le Bourreau de l'Ardèche, moves to Paris. He is quickly snapped up by Monsieur Bob,...

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  • 1963
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    The Trip to Biarritz

    The Trip to Biarritz

    6.7 1963 HD

    Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous...

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  • 1965
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    Rope Around the Neck

    Rope Around the Neck

    1 1965 HD

    Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his...

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  • 2011
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    François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996

    François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996

    9 2011 HD

    "What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his...

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  • 1999
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    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

    8.3 1999 HD

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  • 2010
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    Amour de vivre

    Amour de vivre

    5.5 2010 HD

    An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his...

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  • 2020
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    The Lives of Albert Camus

    The Lives of Albert Camus

    8 2020 HD

    Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the...

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  • 2011
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    Manifesto of the 121

    Manifesto of the 121

    10 2011 HD

    On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, supporters in the metropolis of the action of the...

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  • 1999
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    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

    8.3 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

    Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

    8.3 1999 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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