Francis Marmande

Francis Marmande was a French author, musician and journalist for the French newspaper Le Monde from 1977. Marmande also served as the director of a modern literature laboratory at Paris Diderot University.

Life and career

Marmande was born on 10 January 1945. He graduated in 1966 from the École Normale Supérieure in Saint-Cloud. A jazz critic, Marmande also played double bass and recorded with the Jac Berrocal Group. He was a contributor to Jazz Magazine from 1971 to 2000, which he also helped illustrate from 1976 to 1994.
From 2006, he had a regular column in Le Monde, writing on topics such as jazz, bullfighting, and literature.
Marmande died from cancer in Paris on 25 December 2025, at the age of 80.