Jean Maheu

Poet and manager.

(…) He was active in the world of music, working for the Ministry of Culture as a lyricist and directing the Orchestre de Paris from 1974 to 1979. He was also vice-president of the Paris Opera. In 1983, he was named President of the Centre Pompidou, succeeding Jean-Claude Groshens [fr]. In 1989, he was named Président-directeur général of Radio France, a position he held until 1995. As part of this mandate, he became a member of the Conseil supérieur de la langue française, a member of the board of directors of Agence France-Presse and a member of Public Francophone Radios.

Source wikipedia (…)

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1987 France Musique : Jean Maheu : la musique et l'amour, comment l’entendez-vous ? : Une archive de 1987

👂 Treasure 📻 from Radio france 1987 Voice of Jean, aka (René Maheu’s son)

Poet and manager.

Humanist et homme de culture.

Vécu 3 ans avec Kafka. writing in music.

> Ne pratique pas la musique. Souffrance. A écrit faute de mieux.

> Assistons nous au crépuscule du genre humain ?

> Montée des fanatismes

> Surmédiatisation de la vie sociale ?

Kind of blue. So what. Miles Davis

Conversation sacrée.

Labyrinthe de la perte de l’être aimée

Passion et déchirement.

Désir d adieu. (Mort) Ithaque…

Prière de vie.

Avé Maria …

🎶 Bach, Miles Davis, Gustav Mahler, Strauss, Schubert (Brendel) et les mots d’Ernest Hemingway (Pour qui sonne le glas) , de Charlotte Brontë, du photographe Bernard Faucon et du poète Jean Maheu (1987)

Grandes œuvres invitant au silence.

Jean Maheu on wikipedia

Jean Maheu
Président-directeur général of Radio France
In office 1989–1995
Preceded by	Roland Faure
Succeeded by	Michel Boyon
President of the Centre Pompidou
In office 1983–1989
Preceded by	Jean-Claude Groshens
Succeeded by	Helene Ahrweiler
Personal details
Born	(1931-01-24)24 January 1931 16th arrondissement of Paris, France
Died	9 January 2022(2022-01-09) (aged 90)

Jean Maheu (24 January 1931 – 9 January 2022) was a French government official.

Life and career

Maheu was the son of Director-General of UNESCO René Maheu and Inès Allafort du Verger. He studied at the Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris and at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He then took classes at Sciences Po and the École nationale d'administration. On 27 July 1956, he married Isabelle Viennot with whom he had six children: Emmanuel, Anne, Sophie, Pascale, Jean-Philippe and Delphine.

In 1958, Maheu began working for the Court of Audit and joined the Comité Rueff-Armand the following year. From 1962 to 1967, he served as Secretary General of the Presidency of the French Republic under Charles de Gaulle. He then served as a secretary to the Minister of Sports from 1967 to 1974.

He was active in the world of music, working for the Ministry of Culture as a lyricist and directing the Orchestre de Paris from 1974 to 1979. He was also vice-president of the Paris Opera. In 1983, he was named President of the Centre Pompidou, succeeding Jean-Claude Groshens. In 1989, he was named Président-directeur général of Radio France, a position he held until 1995. As part of this mandate, he became a member of the Conseil supérieur de la langue française, a member of the board of directors of Agence France-Presse and a member of Public Francophone Radios.

Maheu was President of the Maison de la poésie de la Ville de Paris from 1995 to 1998. He then became President of the Board of Directors of the Théâtre de la Ville in 1996, President of the Centre national de la photographie in 1996, and President of the Association des Centres culturels de rencontres in 1997.

He was an associate professor at Sciences Po from 1959 to 1970, an associated professor at Paris-Sorbonne University from 1994 to 1997, and later an associate professor at the University of Évry Val d'Essonne.

Maheu died on 9 January 2022, at the age of 90.

Publications

• Les Nus et les Trembles (1984)
• Un été de sel (1989)
• Le Ravissement de l'île (1992)
• L'ébloui (2004)
• Naissance du vertige (2009)

Decorations

• Officer of the Legion of Honour
• Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite
• Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques
• Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Order of the Rising Sun