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André Jean Tudesq
A French historian and media scholar, he is best known for landmark work on nineteenth-century France and for opening up the study of African media in the French-speaking academy.
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The Square Jaw
by Henry Ruffin, André Jean Tudesq
About the author
André-Jean Tudesq was a French academic whose work moved between contemporary history and the study of media. Library and scholarly sources identify him as living from 1927 to 2009, and describe him as a professor at the University of Bordeaux III, where he taught history as well as information and communication studies.
His major historical work, Les grands notables en France (1840-1849), became a noted study of elites and political society in nineteenth-century France. Later, he also became a pioneer in research on African media, especially the press, radio, and television in sub-Saharan Africa.
Colleagues remembered him as an energetic teacher and builder of institutions. Accounts from Bordeaux and Hermès note that he helped develop journalism teaching there, led one of France’s earliest third-cycle programs in information and communication sciences, and founded the Centre d’études des médias. No suitable verified portrait image was found in the sources I checked.