Jean Laborde

Jean Laborde was a French journalist and writer. He was born in Lyon, and studied law at university before commencing his career as a journalist. At the request of Pierre Lazareff, he became the judicial reporter of France Soir in 1945. In this role, he covered several famous cases, among them the Victor Kravchenko case, the Marie Besnard case and the Gustave Dominici case. From 1964, he was the chief law correspondent of L'Aurore.