Nicolas Beau
{{short description|French journalist and writer}}
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Nicolas Beau (born 2 June 1952) is a French journalist and writer.
Biography
Beau completed secondary education at l'école Saint-Martin de France, in Pontoise, run by Father Dabosville, a representative of open catholicism; He graduated from IEP Paris in 1973. He worked for Quotidien du Médecin, Le Monde, Libération, Agence CAPA, Le Nouvel Économiste, L'Expansion and as an investigative journalist with Canard enchaîné.{{cite web|url=http://www.bakchich.info/auteur7589.html|title=Nicolas Beau|website=Bakchich|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217055826/http://www.bakchich.info/auteur7589.html|archive-date=17 February 2009}} He was also editor-in-chief of the satirical website Bakchich.{{Cite news |date=18 July 2012 |title=L'hebdomadaire "Marianne" ferme sa cellule investigation |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2012/07/18/marianne-ferme-sa-cellule-investigation_1735395_3236.html |access-date=2024-04-20 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}{{Cite web |last=Roussel |first=Frédérique |title=Le caneton Bakchich se déchaîne |url=https://www.liberation.fr/ecrans/2007/12/11/le-caneton-bakchich-se-dechaine_108303/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Libération |language=fr}}
He also wrote for the website Marianne between 2011 and 2013.{{Cite web |date=27 April 2013 |title=Nicolas Beau – Marianne |url=https://www.marianne.net/auteur/nicolas-beau |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=www.marianne.net |language=fr}}
Afterwards he created Mondafrique, a website covering French-speaking Africa (the Maghreb and West Africa).{{Cite news |date=3 December 2013 |title=Beau lance Mondafrique.com |url=http://www.pressenews.fr/quotidiens/2013/12/03/beau-lance-mondafriquecom,107997540-BRL |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208053254/http://www.pressenews.fr/quotidiens/2013/12/03/beau-lance-mondafriquecom,107997540-BRL |archive-date=8 December 2013 |work=PressNews}}
Publications
- Paris, capitale arabe, Le Seuil, 1995.
- Notre ami Ben Ali, l'envers du miracle tunisien, La Découverte, 1999. With Jean-Pierre Tuquoi.
- La Maison Pasqua, Plon, 2002.
- SNCF, la machine infernale, Le Cherche midi, 2004. With Laurence Dequay et Marc Fressoz.
- Une imposture française, Les Arènes, 2006. A book on Bernard-Henri Lévy with Olivier Toscer.
- Quand le Maroc sera islamiste, La Découverte, 2006. With Catherine Graciet.
- L'incroyable Histoire du compte japonais de Jacques Chirac, Les Arènes, 2008. With Olivier Toscer.
- La Régente de Carthage : Main basse sur la Tunisie, La Découverte, 2009. WIth Catherine Graciet.
- Tunis et Paris : les liaisons dangereuses, Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2011. With Arnaud Muller.
- Le Vilain Petit Qatar – Cet ami qui nous veut du mal, Fayard, 2013. With Jacques-Marie Bourget
- Papa Hollande au Mali : Chronique d'un fiasco annoncé, Balland, 2013 {{ISBN|978-2-35315-230-8}}
- Les beurgeois de la République, Seuil, 2016.
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Category:21st-century French essayists
Category:20th-century French essayists