Disappearance of Jean-Claude Lamy, journalist and writer, at 83

It was his wife who says it, and all those who knew him and worked with him think the same thing: more than a passion, journalism and literature were the great vocation of Jean-Claude Lamy, who died in early February at the age of 83, in this place he loved, the island aux monks, even if he shared his life between Paris and Morbihan. “Already a teenager, he was fascinated by the character of the famous routabille the intrepid reporter”, tells Fabienne Lamy with emotion. It is true that this native of Valence often quoted this fictional character created by Gaston Leroux. Jean-Claude Lamy was even one of the few to give the ” TRUE “ Rouletabille name: Joseph Joséphin…

The journalist went through two major titles, France evening and joined Le Figaro After the end of everyday life founded by Pierre Lazareff. But who remembers that he had launched his career by contributing to “Gossip of the gossip”this section created by Carmen Tessier, at the time one of the most famous journalists, and mistress of Pierre Lazareff. A few years earlier, Jean-Claude Lamy, after going through the CFJ (Training Center for Journalists), had made his weapons in the regional daily press, especially in Dauphiné liberated.

The Drôme Academy of Letters

He was a great journalist, who was loved by his colleagues as well as his rivals, because he was always kindly. This did not prevent him from being an exemplary investigator. His articles were searched, he was one of the rare feathers, with Bernard Pivot and Jean Chalon, who had raised to the rank of art “The echo”this brief information found in cocktails or behind the scenes of literary prizes. The profession called them “Les Echotiers”.

Jean-Claude Lamy was not stingy with « coups » Journalists, as this day he introduced to the French Academy to write an article on the subject. He had done everything in the rules of the immortals and had applied for Jean Dutourd’s chair on May 10, 2012. He was not elected, obtaining only one voice, but during this election no candidate had won – “A white election”.

No matter, in 2018, Lamy was elected to the Drôme Academy of Letters, Sciences and Arts. It’s not nothing. And that same year, he had received a reward awarded by the French Academy for his biography, Jean-Edern Hallier. The elusive idiot.

Sagan, Brassens, Poulidor, Hard.

His investigator side naturally brought him to the book. By dint of surveys and work, Jean-Claude Lamy has become a biographer. He published and prefaced the posthumous memories of Robert Sabatier; He wrote more than thirty books on personalities he admired or he knew or both. Impossible to quote them all, his bibliography is impressive. Among them: Françoise Sagan, Georges Brassens, Raymond Poulidor, Pierre Lazareff, Gaston Leroux, Marguerite Duras, Coluche, Bernard and Annabelle Buffet, Jeanne Calment, Mac Orlan, etc. An inventory in prevert … Precisely, he had also signed the biography of the Prévert brothers and obtained the Goncourt Prix de la Biography in 2008.

We cannot evoke Jean-Claude Lamy without talking about his « premier » death … because the journalist had the ” privilege “ to be announced for death when he was alive! It was in May 2018, on the eve of Pentecost, Wikipedia then declared his disappearance, her photo in support of necrology. He was a namesake. A shock for Jean-Claude Lamy, but who laughed! He also wrote a book, tasty and funny: My first death.