Jean Dominique Bauby

Jean-Dominique Bauby, born 23 April 1952 in Paris ^14th and died on 9 March 1997 , is a French journalist, author of a book about his experience of locked-in syndrome , or entrapment syndrome. He lived with Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld (president of Canal Jimmy ).

Biography

Raised in Paris , he grew up rue du Mont-Thabor behind the Jardin des Tuileries in the old building of Alfred de Musset. Editor of the women's magazine she and the father of two children, Theophile and Celeste, Jean-Dominique Bauby is a victim on Friday 8 December 1995 of a stroke that plunged him into a coma and then assigns the locked-in syndrome.

Hospitalized for 44 years, hospital Marine Berck , he retains his mental capacity. He continues to move one of his eyelids, which allows it to communicate. That letter after letter he dictated his book, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly , published on 6 March 1997. As mentioned in the last sentence of his book, he died three days after its release, 9 March 1997.

In May 2007 the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, adapted from his book comes out in theaters, with Mathieu Amalric in the role of Jean-Dominique Bauby.