Editor for almost thirty years in the evening daily life, he had followed topicality in higher education, sport and regional information, participating in particular in the creation of the “Rhône-Alpes world”. He died on September 4, at the age of 77.
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Serge Bolloch died on Sunday September 4, at the age of 77, in Paris, after fought against cancer for three years. Behind his blue eyes and his white mop, he was
As modest in his illness as in his multiple facets. Born May 24, 1945 in Rouen, he saw an carefree youth, in a family of Breton origin. At Lycée Fontenelle, he tried himself in the theater, which frequents young artists and writers who find themselves in the same bistro to discuss the way of shaking Rouen culture.
A tragic episode will upset this journey. Having become a student in history, Serge Bolloch is also a very committed political activist. On January 12, 1967, when he distributed leaflets against war in Vietnam, he was violently attacked by extreme nervies
Right (Le Monde of February 26, 2010). Seriously injured in the head, he is hospitalized and is the subject of a notoriety which he would probably have gone well. Physically and psychologically marked, he will never forget this dramatic event.
It was in 1970 that his journalist career really began. Young a groom and already a father, Serge Bolloch enters Paris-Normandie, where he realized his double dream of journalism and regional information processing. But when the “Papivore” Robert Hersant takes hold of the big Norman daily, from the Resistance, Serge does not support him and, with other colleagues and friends, decides to resign. Courageously, this band of friends tries to launch the tribune of the agglomeration of Rouen, a weekly which will hardly live more than a year.
anchoring in Corrèze
Arrived in Paris, he was first a freelancer, then permanent delegate of the Press Information Jeunesse association (APIJ). This specialization on education issues will lead him to the newspaper Le Monde, where he entered in 1979 to follow the news of higher education. At the beginning of 1986, he moved to Lyon for a few months to participate in the creation of the Rhône-Alpes world, which brings him back to regional information from which he continued the processing during the launch of the “local hours” supplement, devoted to the Life of local authorities.
Serge Bolloch is also a sports enthusiast. He loved the sea and the mountain. Good sailor, he practiced sailing and, in addition to skiing, he had tried mountaineering to the point of having followed, in May 1988, mountaineer Benoît Chamoux in the ascent of Annapurna. As a reporter, he covered Tours de France, Olympic Games, World Cups and Paris-Dakar. He left his colleagues in the section today (where sports, scientific, medical and tourist information mingled) the memory of a “joyful and effective professional complicity”. It is in this patchwork, which, basically, was fine with him that he ends a course of almost thirty years in the world.
After his departure from the world in 2008, Serge joined the team of mediators of the City of Paris, and is falling out, several days a week, to resolve conflicts between Parisians and their administrations. Because, as one of his old friends says: “Serge was curious about everything. He was also of his friends. He called, regularly, to get news. Attentive and discreet, he had the rare gift to listen and rarely to judge. “
One of the great pleasures of his life was a house, which he bought and then rewarded after his assault with his wife, Joëlle, in the hamlet of Corbier, in Corrèze. Over the years, it has become the anchor of the family, children, Hugues and Cécile, their spouses and six grandchildren. Festive rallying of many friends of militant years and colleagues close to the couple, this house has now become the meeting place for their children and grandchildren, who “squat” it to organize their own festivals.