Stéphane Hoffmann
Stéphane Hoffmann (6 March 1958, Saint-Nazaire) is a French writer. Biography. Stéphane Hoffmann was sent to the Jesuits at Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes for ten years, then to the Frères de Ploërmel at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Saint-Nazaire. After he studied in hypokhâgne at lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris, and although admitted in khâgne, he preferred to continue history and law studies in 1977 at the Paris-Sorbonne University and the Panthéon-Assas University. He finished them with a bachelor's degree in history (1980) and a master's degree in private law , obtained in 1983 in Nantes, where he lived from 1980 to 1992. After three days working as a chronicler in the radios of Nantes, he organized "Les mardis nantais" between 1983 and 1987, evenings where he would receive some writers, including Félicien Marceau, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Jean d'Ormesson, Régine Deforges, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, and Geneviève Dormann. The publication of his first novel in 1989 opened him the doors of "Le Figaro Magazine", where he published his first article on the history of the sandwich in 1990. He wrote a few hundred more on books, actresses, cigars and the best way  to polish one's shoes. Since March 2013, he holds a television critic's column: "La vision télé de Stéphane Hoffmann". Having lived from 1992 to 2002 in four arrondissements of Paris (15th, 6th, 9th, 7th), he settled in La Douettée, a hamlet on the banks of the Isac, on the outskirts of the in Loire-Atlantique. At La Baule-Escoublac, he has organized and animated since 2003 "Les Rendez-Vous de La Baule", where he invites every year twenty authors to meet their readers. And, since 2011, "Les Rendez-Vous des écrivains", the first weekend of December. Stéphane Hoffmann