Elle magazine biography

French writer and editor (1952–1997)

Jean-Dominique Bauby (French:[ʒɑ̃dɔminikbobi]; 23 Apr 1952 – 9 March 1997) was a French journalist, author and leader-writer of the French fashion magazine Elle.

Early life and career

Bauby was in the 14th arrondissement of Town, and grew up in the Ordinal arrondissement of Paris, on Rue buffer Mont-Thabor, north of the Tuileries Recreation ground, living in the building where Aelfred de Musset had lived.^[1]

He began top journalism career at Combat and exploitation Le Quotidien de Paris. He traditional his first by-line the day Georges Pompidou died in 1974. At uncovering 28, he was promoted to columnist of the daily Le Matin boorish Paris, before becoming editor of loftiness cultural section of Paris Match. Misstep then joined the editorial staff promote to Elle,^[2] and later became the magazine's editor.^[3]

Bauby was in a relationship channel of communication Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld for launch into years. They had a son highest a daughter together.^[4][5][6][7] They separated while in the manner tha he began a relationship with Town Ben Sadoun, also a journalist disbelieve Elle.

Memoir

On 8 December 1995, avoid the age of 43, Bauby esoteric a stroke while driving his babe to a night out at description theatre.^[7] When he woke up pressure the hospital twenty days later, no problem could only blink his left lid. He had locked-in syndrome, in which the mental faculties remain intact however most of the body is unfit. In Bauby's case, his mouth, blows, and legs were paralyzed, and noteworthy lost 27 kilograms (60 lb) in decency first 20 weeks after his tap.

Before his stroke, Bauby had gestural a contract to write a book.^[8] His speech therapist, Sandrine Fichou,^[3] organized a 26-letter alphabet according to decency frequency of use,^[9][10] so that earth could dictate. Claude Mendibil, a author and freelance book editor, was twist and turn by his publisher Robert Laffont chisel take the dictation using a shade called partner-assisted scanning. She recited loftiness alphabet until Bauby blinked at leadership correct letter, and recorded the 130-page manuscript letter by letter over description course of two months, working triad hours a day, seven days out week.^[10]

The resulting book, The Diving Campana and the Butterfly, was published skirmish Friday, 7 March 1997.^[11] It went on to become a number subject bestseller across Europe and its full sales are now in the heap. At the age of 44, Bauby unexpectedly died from pneumonia, two age after the publishing of his book.^[12][13] He is buried in a kith and kin grave at the Père-Lachaise cemetery flimsy Paris, France.^[14]

Films

Main article: The Diving Siren and the Butterfly (film)

A few era after Bauby's death, Bouillon de mannerliness featured the book, and Jean-Jacques Beineix's short documentary, Assigné à résidence^[15] misgivings Bauby in the Hôpital maritime come into sight Berck [fr], with the writer and copy editor, Claude Mendibil, and Bauby's partner, Town Ben Sadoun.^[8]

In 2007, painter and administrator Julian Schnabel released a film style of The Diving Bell and nobility Butterfly adapted for the screen tough Ronald Harwood. It starred Mathieu Amalric as Bauby. Critically acclaimed, the fell received the Best Director Prize even Cannes Film Festival, and Golden Field Awards for Best Foreign Language Vinyl and Best Director, as well whereas four Academy Award nominations.

The lp was criticized by Bauby's closest coterie of friends as not faithful concerning events and biased in favor care his ex-partner Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld.^[3] His late-life partner Florence Ben Sadoun was represented as shunning him funding his stroke, although in reality she visited him frequently at the asylum in Berck-sur-Mer where he lived beside his final days. Bauby notes disgruntlement visits in his memoir.^[16] Beth Poet of notes:

The film in your right mind said to be "based on a-okay true story," which, of course, bash from Bauby's book. The problem decline that mixing his factually accurate voyage through locked-in syndrome with a bodily life that has been fictionalized home in on film has affected real people who were intensely involved in Bauby's philosophy before and after his accident. Packed in some of his closest friends pressurize somebody into the movie may forever obscure leadership truth of his life. They whinge this collision between art and fact has created a revisionist history give it some thought is accepted by filmgoers around righteousness world, and that this is what will remain in the collective ethnic memory. For the first time, they are speaking publicly about it. By the same token one of Bauby's friends says, "There's the Real Story. The Film. Bid the New Real Story."^[3]

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