Marc Gilbert

Marc Gilbert (born Gilbert Levy, 24 April 1934 in Strasbourg - 6 November 1982) was a French journalist. He produced and animated the shows Eurêka, Volume & Italiques from 1966 to 1974 at the ORTF.
Origins
Originally from Ringendorf and Duppigheim in Alsace , he was the son of Jérôme Lévy, horse seller and real estate and Yvonne Metzger who owned stable lads in the center of Strasburg and his grand parents grain business. Everything's stolen by the Nazis during World War II . They escape to Lyon and change his name in Alfred Jost before hiding him in a catholic school , la manécanterie de Claveisolles. The head father hides Jewish kids, résistant kids & learns him hebrew hidden from the other at night. He will be able to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah in Strasburg after the war. His parents receive the shophar of the synagogue of Ringendorf. He prepares in 1953 a year of preparation for medicine studies (PCB) in Besançon. He meets Suzanne Ducretet, working for Lip, leader of horlogery at that time. They have a child Fabrice Barbier born in 1955.

The apprentissage of journalism
He goes back to Lyon, begins medicine studies and journalism for Le Progrès. He signs the front page articles: The student. He writes also for the magazine Planète , the Reader's Digest , in Paris in 1963 for the Nouvel Observateur and for the magazine Life. He will animate in live on RTL the epic tour of the moon by Apollo 13. For Volumes, he organizes a documentary for ORTF at the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton with Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the bombe. The film ends on this saying of Oppenheimer : « I am not optimistic ».

70's French Television
In 1971, Pierre Sabbagh asks him to animate Italiques (ORTF) , « a television show centered on books for the readers and realized with their help ». It is a popular success and the généric is modified. Ennio Morricone will do the music with the soundtrack of The fifth day of peace (Dio e con noi) of Giuliano Montaldo and Jean-Michel Folon who will create a motion picture famous for his little blue men who fly with the books. He married in 1973 Laurence de Cambronne , journalist at Paris Match then at ELLE who gave him two children: Jérémy born in 1976 & Alexandre in 1980 . In 1979, Marc Gilbert becomes general secretary of the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) that publishes every year the Ramses report. He presents Alexandre Trauner to Marie-Christine de Montbrial. Gilbert died in Étretat, France.

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