Former member of the Commander Cousteau expeditions
Yves Paccalet
Born in 1945 in Savoie, Yves Paccalet is a philosopher, writer, journalist, naturalist, and screenwriter. He studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure of Saint-Cloud.Passionate about nature, he met Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1972, accompanied him for nearly twenty years, and co-authored ...
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About Yves Paccalet
Born in 1945 in Savoie, Yves Paccalet is a philosopher, writer, journalist, naturalist, and screenwriter. He studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure of Saint-Cloud.
Passionate about nature, he met Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1972, accompanied him for nearly twenty years, and co-authored numerous books with him.
He collaborates with various magazines (Terre sauvage, Géo, Le Nouvel Observateur, Ushuaïa Magazine, etc.), writes comic book and animated series scripts, dedicates himself to novels (L’Azur ! L’Azur !) and other illustrated books, narratives, philosophical essays, and poetic works (L’odeur du soleil dans l’herbe, Le Bonheur en marchant, Mes plus belles balades en France, Kamtchatka, la terre des origines, La France des légendes, Soigner l’homme, soigner la Terre, L’école de la nature, Voyage au pays des montagnes, Voyage au pays des fleurs, Forêts de légendes, Atlantide, rêve et cauchemar, Légumes oubliés d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, etc.). He provides radio columns and works for television and cinema.
After his black humor essay L’Humanité disparaîtra, bon débarras ! (Pamphlet Prize, 2006), he presents his solutions in Sortie de secours (2007) in the form of “three utopias.” He composes Le Grand Roman de la vie (2009), the first volume of a philosophical work dedicated to what he calls his “poetic and ironic materialism.” In 2010, he published his Dictionnaire énervé de l’écologie: les mots pour le pire. In 2011, he released an essay, Partageons ! L’utopie ou la guerre; and a “cruel tale” in the manner of Voltaire: Les Deux mamelles du bonheur.
After co-founding the Cousteau Foundation in 1981 and serving as the director of the Calypso Log, Yves Paccalet participated in the board of directors of Greenpeace France and the works of WWF. From 2006 to 2008, he was president of the environmental NGO Green Cross France. Appointed knight of the Legion of Honor (2008) by the Minister of Ecology for his actions in favor of the environment, he participated in the Grenelle de l’Environnement (“Agriculture and Food” group), and then in the Grenelle de la Mer.
Yves Paccalet was elected in 2010 as a regional councilor for Rhône-Alpes, representing his region on the board of directors of the Vanoise National Park. He is the vice-president of the Tourism Commission of the Rhône-Alpes region.