Jean Teulé: a sudden death, the causes of death uncertain – Linternaute.com

JEAN TEULE. Novelist and comic book author Jean Teulé died on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at the age of 69. The exact causes of his death remain unknown. He died of cardiac arrest after food poisoning. Summary

[Mis à jour le 21 octobre 2022 à 11h09] His death was unexpected Tuesday, October 18, 2022, the writer Jean Teulé died at the age of 69. The man of letters became known with his historical works, but also his books of black comedies. His best-sellers, such as Enter the Dance, Le Montespan or Crénom, Baudelaire!, made him popular. For now, the circumstances of the writer’s death remain unclear. According to a police source cited by Le Parisien, Jean Teulé died in his accommodation in the 3rd arrondissement in Paris. He would have succumbed to cardiac arrest, according to his editor, who could not, on Wednesday, be categorical about the causes of death. The causes of his death remain uncertain: as indicated by Le Parisien and Actu Paris, an investigation has been opened to determine the exact circumstances of his death. Several media, Wednesday, indicated that the cardiac arrest could have occurred following a food poisoning which affected him during the weekend, after a meal at the restaurant. The investigations carried out must confirm or invalidate this hypothesis. According to a journalist from M6, who relies on the entourage of the deceased writer, Jean Teulé’s state of health “deteriorated after eating meatballs last Saturday”. On Twitter, he says that Jean Teulé “was admitted to the Lariboisière hospital on Sunday before being able to return to his home”. The death of Jean Teulé generated a wave of emotion in France, especially since his death occurred unexpectedly. In an official press release, on October 20, 2022, the Elysée paid tribute to “one of our most popular authors”. President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron hailed “a triple gifted writer, for comics, television and literature”. The presidential couple sent “to his partner Miou-Miou, to his family, his relatives, and his readers, their heartfelt condolences”. Born in Normandy on February 26, 1953, Jean Teulé liked to recall that he was born on the same day as “Victor Hugo and Buffalo Bill”, which underlined his taste for literature, at least for the first. The writer and cartoonist first entered the world of books through comics. The man devoted ten years of his life to drawing comic strips, from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. When he traded drawing for words with his first novels, including the famous Rainbow for Rimbaud (1991). Jean Teulé however continued to attend his first love punctually. In his books, the novelist takes pleasure in recounting the little stories of History, those which are spoken of little or not at all, such as that of the cuckolded husband of the famous favorite of King Louis XIV in Le Montespan. Jean Teulé also makes an impression with his works which focus on crimes or criminals who really existed and is a French reference in the genre of True crime. These often raw stories resonate with his style of writing, a style also marked by his love and knowledge of Old French and its popular expressions. Some works by Jean Teulé have gone from books to the big screen with several adaptations including that of Rainbow for Rimbaud and here again the writer is in charge as director. Four other novels by the author are adapted but this time without the assistance of Jean Teulé: Darling, Le Magasin des suicides, Stop me from the novel Les Lois de lagravité and Fleur de tonnerre. The fact remains that before being linked to the 7th art, Jean Teulé staged himself on the small screen with two major appointments, that of L’Assiette anglaise on Antenne 2 from 1987 to 1989 then in Nowhere else on Canal+ until the 1990s. Jean Teulé, a passionate personality Who better than the author to tell his story? Over the course of interviews, the writer was able to deliver a bit of personality. During a meeting with the journalist Elodie Souigo on Franceinfo in 2020, the author got tired of going to a few confidences. As a child, he describes himself as “a little bit different”. He also shared part of his childhood with the couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier who felt this same gap with the other classmates “both of us felt different” (…) And neither he nor I, we are surprised by what happened to us. It’s as if we knew we were going to manage, that things were going to be fine and that we were going to chart our course.” They were not mistaken. Jean Teulé, jack of all trades, is the author of many popular and critical successes. Thus, his historical novel Le Montespan, has sold more than 500,000 copies. If a figure was needed to illustrate the author’s fame, Le Magasin des Suicides has been translated into 24 languages. Over the course of his career, he felt growing anxiety. Also interviewed in 2022 on the program Le Monde d’Elodie on Franceinfo, Jean Teulé worried about “disappointing” his readers. Despite the longevity of his career, he was always nervous. “I tell myself that this is the twentieth novel, and that I’ve been selling them for twenty years, it’s good! But not at all. I am more and more nervous, more and more worried. I cross my fingers saying to myself: I hope that people will hang on to this thing” he declared. During his career he received several awards. In 1984, Jean Teulé was recomposed at the Festival d’ Angoulême, not as a novelist but as a comic strip author, his first love.He received the Grand Prix de la critique for Bloody Mary, a work he wrote and drew with his friend Jean Vautrin, who had already written the novel. from which the comic strip is taken. A few years later, he will receive a special prize at the same prestigious festival in 1989 for a collection of reports, Gens de France, in which he delivers portraits of personalities of all kinds. A year later, in 1990 he received a prize at the International Comics Festival for “his exceptional contribution to the renewal of the comic strip genre. However, for the author this prize has a particular echo. He confessed to Franceinfo, “when we m’ gave this thing, I thought I was dead . It was a posthumous prize. The next day, it’s true, I stopped.” In addition to his pedagogy, the author had another characteristic, his outspokenness. The writer did not have his tongue in his pocket whether you like it… or not! Jean Teulé did not consider himself an author like the others; without pretension, he told on Europe 1 that the current world “inflated him a little”. He did not want to talk about him preferring to his misfortunes, history or portraits On the national radio, he easily criticized certain working methods of his colleagues: “For many writers, it’s ‘I have pain in my knee, I’m going to write a book about it, it should interest the world entire’. Me, I don’t give a damn about that”. He didn’t want to put pressure on himself, he also admitted that he didn’t read many novels except when preparing his historical works, so he “wrote in his own way “, free and without comparison. A writer passionate about History It was stronger than him, History was his favorite subject. In a meeting with the journalists of Maine Libre, he declared about his appetite for the past “Perhaps it’s because I don’t like the current world too much. Above all, he loved historical news items. In Eat it if you want, published in 2009, he retraced the history of the village of Hautefaye where Alain de Monéys, was mistaken for a Prussian and eaten by the villagers. The historical novel was his favorite genre. In his latest novel, released in 2022, Agincourt in rainy weather, he recounted the defeat of France at Agincourt against the outnumbered English on October 25, 1415. In his novel Charles 9 he told, in a fictionalized biography, the story of the eponymous King of France. In an interview given to Ouest-France, Jean Teulé explained how he worked to enrich his historical novels. “For six months, I read everything I can. I want to be as close as possible to the truth. All the names of the characters, sometimes their physical descriptions, if I have them, are true.” he said. For him this kind of literature was underestimated. “At school, we are taught history badly, with lists of names, dates. Whereas if we dig, we find nuggets, incredible characters. That said, my novels also have a lot of resonance with the present world”. For Franceinfo, he confided that when he went to schools, when invited, students came to see him to say to him: “Sir, if it was you who gave us history lessons, we would have best grades.” The writer has devoted twenty novels to history. Many of them have also been adapted to the cinema, but also to the theater. With talent, he revisited the historical narrative to present it in a new light. The author confided: “I write books that I would like to read”, reports Marianne. However, each work required a considerable amount of work. In order to accurately report the life of historical figures like Charles IX, Verlaine or Rimbaud, Jean Teulé worked like a “monk” in his office. From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., he studied hundreds of documents, archives and works to be as close as possible to reality. If he was discreet about his private life, Jean Teulé had not made his relationship with actress Miou-Miou a secret. The couple spun the perfect love since 1998 but had never spread in the media, Miou-Miou certainly cooled by the media exposure of these previous relationships. Both working in the art professions, Jean Teulé and Miou-Miou met on a professional level during the film Stop Me, an adaptation of the book Les Lois de lagravité released in 2013 and in which Miou-Miou holds the main role. In L’Écho Républicain, Christophe Dolbeau, former companion of Jean-Pierre Coffe, tells how Jean Teulé and Miou-Miou met, at Jean-Pierre Coffe’s in Lanneray, near Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir). The man tells how Miou-Miou, great friend of Jean-Pierre Coffe, had come to his house. Jean Teulé, who had met the gastronomic columnist at Canal +, had also befriended him. They thus met through him. For the anecdote, Christophe Dobeau says that the writer did not immediately recognize the actress. Jean Teulé admitted that Miou-Miou was his fantasy: “I told everyone when the film came out that the woman of my life was the Valseuses girl”. Jean Teulé and Miou-Miou, Sylvette Henry of her real name, never married. The septuagenarian actress had indicated in the columns of Gala in 2020: “I don’t need that. You can have in your head the desire to spend your life with someone without having to say it in front of a witness! ” In addition to not having sealed their union in a marriage, the writer and the actress have never had children together either. The actress, however, had two daughters from her previous relationships: Angèle in 1974 with Patrick Dewaere and Jeanne in 1978 with Julien Clerc. The circumstances of Jean Teulé’s death remain uncertain. According to several media, the author died on Tuesday, October 18, after having had a heart attack. The latter was attributed to food poisoning. He would have contracted it during a meal in a restaurant the previous weekend. To shed light on the exact circumstances of Jean Teulé’s death, the Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation, Le Parisien reported. For its part, M6info indicated that the author would have been admitted to the hospital last Sunday, while his condition was deteriorating. #INFOM6 Death of Jean Teulé, Tuesday evening in Paris. The track of food poisoning studied. The state of health of Miou-Miou’s companion deteriorated after eating meatballs last Saturday, according to his entourage @m6info pic.twitter.com/RIqUMDwXXi – François Vignolle (@frvignolle) October 20, 2022