Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers
| Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 October 1939 |
| Died | 6 December 2013 (aged 74) |
| Occupation | Poet, preface writer, columnist, critic, webmaster, |
| Genre | symbolism, forma brevis, esotericism |
| Notable awards | 1987 of the Société des gens de lettres (Society of Men of Letters of France, a writer's association founded in 1838) for Le sculpteur d'eaux |
Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers (22 October 1939 - 6 December 2013) was a French writer and poet. He was born on 22 October 1939 in Versailles and died on 6 December 2013.
Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers went to high school at the collège Albert de Mun, at Michel Bouts' école du Gai Savoir, a school based on the principles of active learning, then at the co-ed lycée of Meaux, now Lycée Henri Moissan. In 1956, he entered a classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, a two-year preparatory course for enrollment in one of France's "grandes écoles" at Paris' Lycée Henri-IV. Having graduated from ENSICA as an engineer in 1962, he spent twenty years working as an executive in the industrial sector and for a private firm running public services. After that, he became associate manager at Bossard Consultants. There, he contributed to develop social dynamics under Jean-Christian Fauvet's supervision. In 1992, he created a consultancy firm specialised in instructional design and based in Boulogne-Billancourt.
He began to write in 1954, encouraged by the poet who published some of his work in his Cahiers de l'Île de France and got him a column in the daily newspaper Figaro
Since 1959, he has worked with cultural associations, among which:
Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers belongs to the Société des poètes français, the French Poets Society.
Besides his professional and literary work, he is involved in various types of political and social action. In particular:
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