Career
He"s starting to work for the Jean-Jacques Pauvert"s magazine Bizarre in 1964. He was writing about fantastic and detective literature in Magazine Littéraire, worked for L"Express and for Le Point. He also was responsible of the Christian Bourgois collection 10/18.
He wrote prefaces for reference editions of many authors and series for the Éditions Robert Laffont.
He was responsible of the Bouquins collection since 1982. He worked on authors such as: Eugène Sue, Gustave Le Rouge, Maurice Leblanc, Fantômas, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, et cetera
That is why he was nicknamed "the man of thousand prefaces".