Robert Belleret

Robert Belleret

Born in December 1946 in Asnières, Robert Belleret was educated at Lycée Carnot (Paris 17th). Student dissipated, he was saved by a bulimia of reading of the great authors in the miraculous Paperback, his passion for cinema, satiated in the film clubs, the rooms of the Latin Quarter and the Cinematheque, and his early discovery of the music hall and all the giants of the French song: Ferré, Brel, Brassens, Béart, Barbara, Nougaro, Ferrat, Aznavour, etc.

After having worked in several food jobs, and underwent military service in a barracks in the FRG, he started in journalism in 1970 at Progress de Lyon, where he learned the trade on the job and on all terrains: facts, facts and figures. society, justice, social, politics, "business", theater, film, song and pop music criticism.

Recruited by Le Monde in 1986, he remained a generalist field reporter. Became a reporter in 1999, he realized his dream to leave in an emergency on hot spots on the planet and to alternate large surveys and portraits of the most diverse personalities: Father Pierre, Fabrice Lucchini, Alain Souchon , Charles Aznavour, Guy and Emmanuelle Béart, José Bové, Ségolène Royal, Paul Bocuse Karl Lagerfeld.

Having contracted the virus of distant travels at a very young age, he has traveled some seventy-five countries on five continents.

His first book was devoted to Léo Ferré, discovered at the age of fourteen, at the Alhambra. Léo Ferré, an artist's life published by Actes-Sud in 1996, has been hailed by critics who consider it the reference biography, reissued three times.

Robert Belleret has published three autobiographical accounts by Sabine Wespieser publisher: Les Bruyères de Bécon, 2002, Sixties, 2004 and Facts-Divers, 2007.

After writing a biography of Jean Ferrat, the song of a rebel (L'Archipel, 2011) he published, at Fayard, a Ferré Dictionary (February 2013) and a monumental biography of Edith Piaf, A myth French (September 2013). In January 2018, he published the first unauthorized biography of Charles Aznavour, Lives and legends of Charles Aznavour (L'Archipel, 2018)

Robert Belleret has self-published at Amazon Portraits on the fly which brings together the great portraits of thirteen personalities.

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