Victim of a cardio-respiratory arrest this Tuesday, October 18, 2022, Jean Teulé died at the age of 69. Successful novelist and comic book author, the author of Le Magasin des suicides leaves behind a woman, the actress Miou-Miou, plunged into terrible sadness.
It is a great void that will remain in the world of literature. When he was only 69, Jean Teulé died suddenly on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 after a cardio-respiratory arrest following food poisoning which occurred in a restaurant during the weekend. Born in Normandy on February 26, 1953, “the same date as Victor Hugo and Buffalo Bill”as he had fun repeating, Jean Teulé will remain as one of the most famous writers and comic book authors in France.
However, nothing predestined him for such a career. Oriented towards studies in automotive mechanics Because of major schooling problems, Jean Teulé was able to count on his drawing teacher in college to take his chance in this very closed environment. After starting a creative journey in the pages of the famous magazine The Echo of the Savannahs at the end of the 1970s, when he would become a veritable pillar of writing, he received numerous prizes, such as that of the Angoulême Festival for his adaptation of bloody mary in 1984.
Jean Teulé, a man with multiple hats
Six years later, in 1990, he will receive an honorary distinction for having greatly contributed to the renewal of the comic strip genre, before hanging up the pencils to devote himself to his second love: writing. After publishing a first novel Rainbow for Rimbaud in 1991, Jean Teulé notably wrote The suicide store in 2007, a book that has become a real bestseller.
But Jean Teulé was also a man of television. Troublemaker of the golden age of Canal +, he became known to the general public for his escapades in “Nowhere else”. Crazy and cultivated as few people can boast, he becomes a rapid prodigy in all the disciplines he meets.
Behind him, Jean Teulé leaves a woman, Miou-Miou, plunged into deep mourning. The actress and the writer met in 1998 and have always been keen to maintain great media discretion over their life as a couple. Their relationship has never been spread out in people magazines, as are the former conquests of Miou-Miou, whether Patrick Dewaere, Coluche, or Julien Clerc. On the contrary, Jean Teulé has always wanted to remain in the shadows, letting his art do the talking for him. His sudden and unexpected death will leave many French people speechless.