Jean-Michel Billioud

Jean-Michel Billioud is a French writer and historian.

He studied at the École de Provence in Marseille from 1971 to 1982. After completing degrees in journalism at the Institut Français de Presse and in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, he put his pen to work in the fields of press, broadcasting (radio and TV), and publishing.

Since 2021, he has served as Head of Communications at the French Ministry of National Education and Youth.

He has published around twenty works of fiction, picture books, and biographical novels, as well as several essays and over a hundred nonfiction titles for readers young and old — always with two main goals: to explain as clearly as possible and to rescue from oblivion what time seeks to erase. His favorite themes include sports, history, culture, and ecology.