- Birthday
- 1947-09-20
- Place of Birth
- Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
François-Olivier Rousseau
WritingBiography
François-Olivier Rousseau (born 20 September 1947, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French journalist and writer. A young literary critic at Le Matin de Paris at the end of the 1970s, he became a novelist, met with success immediately and collected several literary prizes. He then left Paris for the Isle of Man where he settled in the capital, Douglas, a town of barely more than 20,000 inhabitants. He devotes himself only to the writing between two voyages. French detesting France, a specialist in the period from Napoleon III to the First World War (which he considers to be "an accident that is in...
