Jean Laborde (journalist)

Jean Laborde (1918-2007) was a French journalist and writer. He was born in Lyon, and studied law at university before commencing his career as a journalist.

At the request of Pierre Lazareff, he became the judicial reporter of France Soir in 1945. In this role, he covered several famous cases, among them the Victor Kravchenko case, the Marie Besnard case and the case. From 1964, he was the chief law correspondent of L'Aurore. He quit in 1978 as a result of conflict with the new owner Le Figaro.

He wrote some twenty books, under his own name and pen names such as Jean Delion and Raf Vallet. Among them are:

• Amour, que de crimes (1954)
• Un homme à part entière (1961)
• L'Héritage de violence (1969) (winner of the Maison de la Presse Prize)
• Le Moindre Mal (1971)
• Heureux les corrompus (1974)

Several of his books were adapted for the cinema, among them:

• Les Bonnes Causes (1960), directed by Christian-Jaque in 1963
• Les Assassins de l'ordre (1956), directed by Marcel Carné in 1971
• Le Pacha directed by Georges Lautner in 1968
• Mort d'un pourri, also directed by Georges Lautner in 1977.

In addition, he co-wrote the screenplay of Peur sur la ville, directed by Henri Verneuil in 1975.

He died in Biarritz in 2007.^[1]

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