Professeur Choron

Professeur Choron

Born: September 21, 1929
Died: January 10, 2005
in Laneuville-aux-Bois, Haute-Marne, France
Georget Bernier (21 September 1929 – 10 January 2005), more commonly known as Professeur Choron, was a French humorist and founder of Hara Kiri magazine.

Born in La Neuville-aux-Bois in Lorraine, Bernier was orphaned by his father at 11 years and without a proper education, he vacillated between many jobs before fighting in the Indochina Wars for 28 months. On his return he worked in the press, and rose through the ranks to take the position of sales manager of the satirical newspaper Zéro.

It was at Zéro that he met François Cavanna and Fred, with whom he founded the magazine Hara Kiri in 1960. After an initial ban, production of the magazine moved from Rue Choron to Rue de Montholon and Éditions du Square was created at its publication house.

In addition to his role of patron of Éditions du Square, Bernier also invested time in writing and photo-editing for Hara Kiri. It was during this era that he appeared on Jean-Christophe Averty's television variety show Les Raisins verts.

In 1969 the Hara Kiri team created Hara-Kiri Hebdo which shortly thereafter was renamed L’Hebdo Hara-Kiri. Other magazines published by Bernier's Editions du Square were the monthly comic Charlie Mensuel, one of the first ecological journals La Gueule ouverte, Mords-y l'œil, Surprise from designer Bernard Willem Holtrop, and Jean-Patrick Manchette's BD, l'hebdo de la BD.

1970 saw the creation of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly political newspaper for which Bernier was a regular contributor. The publication folded in 1981, but was relaunched by Cavanna and Bernier in 1993 and, as of 2011, remains in publication.

In 1988 Bernier adapted his fiches bricolages for television. He also participated in Jean-Michel Ribes' Merci Bernard. His last publications include La Mouise and Grodada, a publication for children. He also participated in several publications affiliated with Hara-Kiri, including ZOO and Yeti, as well as the launching of the periodical Zero in 1986.

In 1996, Aure Atika's interview of Jackie Berroyer for Radio Nova, at a bar's round table, degenerated into an angry exchange of words between Choron, who was sitting at the table, and Atika, with Choron denouncing her questions as "stupid" and Atika flinging the contents of her glass at him.

Bernier was the father of the comedian Michèle Bernier. He died 10 January 2005 at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris and was buried at Montparnasse Cemetery alongside his wife Odile Vaudelle (1934–1985). In 2008, director Pierre Carles and artist Martin released the documentary Choron Dernière in his honour.

Source: Article "Professeur Choron" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Character: Self - writer
Released: February 26, 2022
Type: Movie
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Character: Self
Released: March 22, 2021
Type: Movie
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Cavanna, jusqu'à l'ultime seconde j'écrirai
Title: Cavanna, jusqu'à l'ultime seconde j'écrirai
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 17, 2015
Type: Movie
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Choron dernière
Title: Choron dernière
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 7, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Loft Paradoxe
Character: Self
Released: May 28, 2002
Type: Movie
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Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie
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Character: Le Professeur Choron
Released: January 22, 1999
Type: Movie
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Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Formidable
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Title: Collaricocoshow
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
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Droit de Réponse
Title: Droit de Réponse
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1981
Type: Movie
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: The Year 01
Character: A conspirator
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
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Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1972
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