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Philippe Jouvion

French journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ7184840 ↗
Source-derived summary

Philippe Jouvion is a professional researcher, freelance reporter and film producer. He worked for several years with the Cité des Sciences de la Villette in Paris producing films, and a number of his documentaries have won awards. At present, he is working as a freelance journalist and is completing a television documentary on the environment.

As a journalist, he has mainly treated scientific and medical subjects, as well as tourism. He has published with Editions du Rouergue, in collaboration with Colette Gouvion.

Works

Gouvion, Colette and Philippe Jouvion.

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The public source identifies “Philippe Jouvion” as french journalist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Philippe, Jouvion and French.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 88-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Philippe, Jouvion and French providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Philippe Jouvion” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.