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My
biography : |
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I started my studies
in Cannes, French Riviera. I studied at the university of
Grenoble, Faculty of Sciences. Then, for two years I taught
mathematics in the oasis of Kebili near Douz, ( Tunisia).
During that time I started to write down my observations regarding
the human environment and I interviewed remarkable people,
collecting their memories and some interesting stories. One
of my books based on these souvenirs, “Entretiens
au Desert” ( Conversations in the Desert ) was
published in 2002 by Dervy Publishers, Paris. |
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Back in France in
1969, I started a career as a civil engineer and for two years
I worked on a dam site in the mountains of Zagros, South of
Iran.
Then, from 1973 till 1978 I was the manager
of the Information Center at the commercial department
of the French Embassy in Tehran.
I met very interesting people and I wrote down numerous notes
about French, Iranian and Russian diplomats , businessmen,
secret agents and newsmen. The time has now arrived to write
my memories about this period. A first manuscript is ready
for any publisher interested in it. |
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In July 1978, I
had to leave Iran because of the beginning of the Islamic
revolution. Soon after, I started a new career at the French
company Bureau Veritas as chief representative in various
countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador,
Czech Republic, Slovakia and Belarus. I also performed
different missions in Mexico, Peru,
Russia and Georgia.
Most of the notes that I have written down during this period
of about twenty years that I have spent
in Caracas, Quito, Mexico, Prague, Bratislava, Moscow, Minsk
and Tbilisi were used to prepare some of my books such
as “Nous sommes tous des guerisseurs“,
(We are all Healers, Alphee publishers, Paris 2006). |
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During my stays in Minsk,
Moscow and Tbilisi I have considerably enriched my documentation
about one of my main subject of interest: the
people of Caucasus. Henceforward I have written four
books regarding this thema: “Etrange
Caucase” ( Strange Caucasus, Fayard publishers, 1978),
“La Montagne du Sang” ( The Bloody Mountain, Georg
publishers, Geneva, 1998,) “Les Damnes de la Russie”
( The Damned of Russia, Georg, 2002), “ Les Caucasiens”
(The Caucasiens, Infolio publishers, Gollion, Switzerland, 2006). |
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Since 2001 I live in
Ferney-Voltaire, a little city located in France, near Geneva.
I share my time between writing books and travelling to various
countries such as the South of Tunisia, Africa, United States
(mainly Arizona and New Mexico) in order to collect informations
for my writing projects. |
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