{{short description|French journalist and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}
'''Nicolas Beau''' (born 2 June 1952) is a French journalist and writer.
== Biography == Beau completed secondary education at l'école Saint-Martin de France, in Pontoise, run by Father Dabosville, a representative of open catholicism; He graduated from IEP Paris in 1973. He worked for ''Quotidien du Médecin'', ''Le Monde'', ''Libération'', ''Agence CAPA'', ''Le Nouvel Économiste'', ''L'Expansion'' and as an investigative journalist with ''Canard enchaîné''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bakchich.info/auteur7589.html|title=Nicolas Beau|website=Bakchich|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217055826/http://www.bakchich.info/auteur7589.html|archive-date=17 February 2009}}</ref> He was also editor-in-chief of the satirical website ''Bakchich''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 July 2012 |title=L'hebdomadaire "Marianne" ferme sa cellule investigation |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2012/07/18/marianne-ferme-sa-cellule-investigation_1735395_3236.html |access-date=2024-04-20 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Roussel |first=Frédérique |title=Le caneton Bakchich se déchaîne |url=https://www.liberation.fr/ecrans/2007/12/11/le-caneton-bakchich-se-dechaine_108303/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Libération |language=fr}}</ref>
He also wrote for the website ''Marianne'' between 2011 and 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 April 2013 |title=Nicolas Beau – Marianne |url=https://www.marianne.net/auteur/nicolas-beau |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=www.marianne.net |language=fr}}</ref>
Afterwards he created ''Mondafrique'', a website covering French-speaking Africa (the Maghreb and West Africa).<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 December 2013 |title=Beau lance Mondafrique.com |url=http://www.pressenews.fr/quotidiens/2013/12/03/beau-lance-mondafriquecom,107997540-BRL |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208053254/http://www.pressenews.fr/quotidiens/2013/12/03/beau-lance-mondafriquecom,107997540-BRL |archive-date=8 December 2013 |work=PressNews}}</ref>
== Publications ==
* ''Paris, capitale arabe'', Le Seuil, 1995. * ''Notre ami Ben Ali, l'envers du miracle tunisien'', La Découverte, 1999. With Jean-Pierre Tuquoi. * ''La Maison Pasqua'', Plon, 2002. * ''SNCF, la machine infernale'', Le Cherche midi, 2004. With Laurence Dequay et Marc Fressoz. * ''Une imposture française'', Les Arènes, 2006. A book on Bernard-Henri Lévy with Olivier Toscer. * ''Quand le Maroc sera islamiste'', La Découverte, 2006. With Catherine Graciet. * ''L'incroyable Histoire du compte japonais de Jacques Chirac'', Les Arènes, 2008. With Olivier Toscer. * ''La Régente de Carthage : Main basse sur la Tunisie'', La Découverte, 2009. WIth Catherine Graciet. * ''Tunis et Paris : les liaisons dangereuses'', Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2011. With Arnaud Muller. * ''Le Vilain Petit Qatar – Cet ami qui nous veut du mal'', Fayard, 2013. With Jacques-Marie Bourget * ''Papa Hollande au Mali : Chronique d'un fiasco annoncé'', Balland, 2013 {{ISBN|978-2-35315-230-8}} * ''Les beurgeois de la République'', Seuil, 2016.
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