ABSTRACT
A co-founder of Tel quel, Hallier’s career as a maverick intellectual was always inclined towards non-conformity, provocation and iconoclasm. A lover of publicity, much of his work was conceived to challenge the status of institutional and political authorities. After May 1968 such efforts were channelled into the left-wing and humorous monthly L’Idiot international (1969-73) and the establishment of his own publishing house, Les Éditions Hallier (1974). Having already attacked the regime of Giscard d’Estaing in 1979 in Lettre ouverte au colin froid (Open Letter to the Cold Hake), during the 1980s Hallier turned his efforts to delving into the past and personal life of his former close friend, François Mitterrand.
