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Jean-Pierre Thiollet
Born	(1956-12-09) 9 December 1956 (age 68) Poitiers, France
Occupation	Writer, columnist
Language	French
Alma mater	Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3
Notable works	Sax, Mule & Co (2004) Je m'appelle Byblos (2005) Barbey d'Aurevilly (2006) Carré d'Art : Byron, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Dalí, Hallier (2008) Bodream (2010) Piano ma non solo (2012), Hallier, l'Edernel jeune homme (2016)

Jean-Pierre Thiollet (French: [ʒɑ̃pjɛʁ tjɔlɛ]; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist.

Primarily living in Paris, he is the author of several books and is one of the national leaders^[1] of the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CEDI),^[2] a European employers' organization.

Thiollet attended school in Châtellerault, studying in Poitiers classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles and acquiring degrees in Parisian universities (Pantheon-Sorbonne University, University of Paris III:Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris-Sorbonne University).^[3]

In 1978, he was admitted to Saint-Cyr (Coëtquidan), a French military academy.^[4]

During the 1980s and till the mid-1990s, he was a member of a French Press organization for Music-hall, Circus, "Dance and Arts". This organisation was presided by French journalist Jacqueline Cartier, and included authors and personalities like Pierre Cardin, Guy des Cars, and Francis Fehr.

From 1982 to 1986, he was a victim of illegal wiretaps (organized by the French President François Mitterrand), for his telephone conversations with the French writer and polemist Jean-Edern Hallier.^[5]

At the end of the 1980s, he was a vice president of Amiic (World Real Estate Investment Organization, Geneva).^[6] He was a lecturer, with others such as Pierre Salinger, François Spoerry, Paul-Loup Sulitzer, of some international meetings of this organization (that vanished in 1997).

At the beginning of the 1990s, he was, with Gilbert Prouteau, one of the writers and art critics for a French magazine, L'Amateur d'Art.

From 1988 to 1994, he was editor-in-chief for Le Quotidien de Paris (Daily Press Group, director Philippe Tesson.^[7]

In 1994, he interviewed Gérard Mulliez, for the book The Customer Driven Company — Moving from Talk to Action (translated in French as La Dynamique du client) by Richard C. Whiteley.

In 1997, he served as Communications Director and member of the Mayor's Cabinet during the parliamentary election in Toulon. He was arbitrarily dismissed the morning after the successful poll and, months later, published "Le Chevallier à découvert" (Laurens, Paris). In 1997, he was also present when the township of Delphi appointed renowned environmentalist Franz Weber as an honorary citizen (Citoyen d'honneur).^[8]

In 1999, he co-produced Studies (Chopin) recorded by Radoslav Kvapil.^[9] From 1999 to 2001, he was the Company Secretary of Mea Publications Limited (United Kingdom)^[10][11] producing the print and online versions of Ici Londres magazine.^[12]

Along with Alain Decaux, Frédéric Beigbeder and Richard Millet, he was one of the guest writers at the 2005 Beirut Book Fair (BIEL) for Je m'appelle Byblos (My Name Is Byblos).

In April 2006, he was directly concerned with the business resumption of France-Soir, but the entrepreneur Jean-Pierre Brunois was finally chosen by the Commercial Court of Lille.^[13]

Since 2007, he has been a member of the World Grand Family of Lebanon (RJ Lebanon Club).^[14]

In 2009, Thiollet signed a petition in support of the film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.^[15]

From 2009 to 2012, he worked as one of the France-Soir editors.^[16]

In October 2016, after dedicating a book about Jean-Edern Hallier to "the youth native from Euroland, zone F, the victim of an old criminal political ruling class", he denounced in an interview "the French crime, committed by a political class, from the left as from the right".^[17]

His wife, Monique Thiollet, was a candidate in the municipal election of 15 and 22 March 2020 in Châtellerault,^[18] supported by La République en marche.^[19]

• Hallier, chagrins d'amour, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2024.ISBN 978-2-35055-313-9
• Hallier, tout feu tout flamme, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2023.ISBN 978-2-35055-309-2
• Hallier en roue libre, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2022.ISBN 978-2-35055-305-4
• Hallier, L'Edernel retour, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2021.ISBN 978-2-35055-295-8
• Hallier, L'Homme debout, with texts by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2020.ISBN 978-2-35055-285-9
• Hallier Edernellement vôtre, with texts by Isabelle Coutant-Peyre and François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2019. ISBN 978-2-35055-273-6
• Hallier ou l'Edernité en marche, with text by François Roboth, Neva Editions, 2018. ISBN 978-2-35055-247-7
• Improvisation so piano, with texts by Bruno Belthoise, Jean-Louis Lemarchand and François Roboth, Neva éditions, Paris, 2017. ISBN 978-2-35055-228-6
• Hallier, l'Edernel jeune homme, with texts by Gabriel Enkiri and François Roboth, Neva éditions, Paris, 2016. ISBN 978-2-35055-217-0
• Créer ou reprendre un commerce (Create or take over a business), Vuibert Ed., Paris, 2011 (3rd ed). ISBN 978-2-7117-6462-4
• Bodream ou rêve de Bodrum, Anagramme Ed., Paris, 2010. ISBN 978-2-35035-279-4
• Carré d'Art: Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lord Byron, Salvador Dalí, Jean-Edern Hallier, with texts by Anne-Élisabeth Blateau and François Roboth, Anagramme Ed., Paris, 2008. ISBN 978-235035-189-6^[20]
• Les Risques du manager, with A. Kibarian, Vuibert Ed., Paris, 2008. ISBN 978-2-7117-8734-0
• La Fiscalité immobilière pour tous (Property taxation for all), Vuibert Ed, Paris, 20017.ISBN 978-2-7117-8769-2
• Barbey d'Aurevilly, with texts by Eugen Drewermann, Jean-Louis Christ and Bruno Bontempelli, H & D, 2006 (ISBN 2-914266-06-5) and 2007 (ISBN 2 914 266 08 1). With CDRom. ISBN 2-914266-06-5
• Foreword to Willy, Colette et moi by Sylvain Bonmariage, Anagramme Ed., 2004 (reprint). ISBN 2-914571-60-7
• Demain 2021 — Jean-Claude Martinez (book-length interview), G. de Bouillon, 2004. ISBN 9782841911615
• Les Dessous d'une Présidence, Anagramme Ed., 2002. ISBN 2-914571-14-3
• Beau linge et argent sale – Fraude fiscale internationale et blanchiment des capitaux (Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion and Money Laundering), Anagramme Ed., 2002, ISBN 2-914571-17-8.
• La Pensée unique, collective work (with Jean Foyer), Economica/J. M. Chardon & D. Lensel Ed., 1998. ISBN 2-7178-3745-0
• Les baux sans peine (The leases without penalty), Axiome Ed., 1999. ISBN 978-2844620408
• La Vie plurielle (Conjugal life. Types of union in the new legislative arena : information for all on their advantages and disadvantages), Axiome Ed., 1999. ISBN 2-8446203-61^[21]
• Le Chevallier à découvert, Laurens Ed., 1998. ISBN 2-911838-51-3^[22]
• Euro-CV, Top Ed., 1997. ISBN 2-87731-131-7
• L'Anti-Crise, with M-F Guignard, Dunod, 1994. ISBN 2-10-002401-9
• Os très primeiros meses num novo emprego, with M-F Guignard, transl. Maria Mello, Biblioteca do desenvolivemento pessoal, Publicações Europa-América [pt], Mem Martins, 1993. ISBN 972-1-03683-8 (Réussir ses trois premiers mois dans un nouveau poste, Nathan, Paris, 1992. ISBN 2-09-176362-4)^[23]
• Utrillo, collective work, F. Birr Ed., 1982. ISBN 2-85754-009-4