The life of Pierre Bérard, who died on April 20 at the age of 91, is inseparable from that of Telerama whose history he accompanied for almost forty years. Lyonnais, a graduate of the Lille Higher School of Journalism, he entered the editorial secretary in 1960, the same year when the Magazine of the Catholic Life opts for the name of Telerama (contraction of his title then, Radio Cinema television) and dares the color in the cover. He will become the editor-in-chief (1978-1990) alongside Francis Mayor (1932-2008), which he succeeded as editorial director (1990-1997), and finally the president until 1999.
When it started, in the small apartment on rue de Laborde, in Paris, so far from the mansion of the rue de Naples that the magazine occupied when Pierre Bérard retires, they are only a handful of journalists, and everything remains to be invented. “The success of Teleramawe dreamed of it from the 1960s and 1970she remembered in the special issue of 50e Birthday, in 2000. During our incessant conversations, nWe promised, as soon as our budget would allow, to open the columns to books, art, reports … ”
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