Guy Pessiot | |
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 Pessiot in 2019 | |
| Born | Guy Pessiot (1949-05-07)7 May 1949 Rouen, France |
| Died | 11 December 2025(2025-12-11) (aged 76) |
| Occupations | Politician Journalist Editor Historian |
Guy Pessiot (7 May 1949 – 11 December 2025) was a French journalist, editor, historian and local politician. He was the co–founder of Éditions Génération and the monthly magazine L'Étudiant.
Life and career
Guy Pessiot was born in Rouen, France on 7 May 1949. He studied in Lycée Pierre-Corneille and then later changed to Neoma Business School.
Pessiot co-founded Éditions Génération and the monthly magazine L'Étudiant in 1971 with René Silvestre, serving as its editor-in-chief. In 1976, he created Le P'tit Normand, a practical guide to the Rouen metropolitan area and Éditions du P'tit Normand (which became PTC in 1999) in 1979. He was Michel Bussi's first publisher.[1]
He became the city councillor for Rouen, then he was elected, in March 2008, third deputy to Valérie Fourneyron. From 2012 to 2020, he was a municipal councillor.
Pessiot was president of the Rouen Seine Valley Normandy Tourist and Convention Bureau from 2008 to 2018 and vice-president of the Tourist Offices of France from 2014 to 2018. In 2019, he was a member of the board of the Rouen Normandy metropolitan area.
Pessiot died on 11 December 2025, at the age of 76.[2]
References
- ^ Pessiot, Guy; Bussi, Michel (2016). "Michel Bussi, romancier populaire et normand. Entretien avec Guy Pessiot, son premier éditeur". Études Normandes. 65 (1): 59–64. doi:10.3406/etnor.2016.3798.
- ^ "Journaliste, éditeur, élu, amoureux du patrimoine et de sa ville : le Rouennais Guy Pessiot est mort - ICI". ICI, le média de la vie locale (in French). 2025-12-11. Retrieved 2025-12-12.
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