Biography
Michel Cournot (1922–2007) was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. Born in Paris, he began his career as a journalist, writing for France-Soir and L'Express, and later served as a film critic for Le Nouvel Observateur and a theatre critic for Le Monde.
As a writer, he received the Fénéon Prize in 1949 for his book Martinique. He directed the feature film Les Gauloises bleues (1968), which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival before the event was cancelled amid the May 1968 protests. He co-wrote the screenplay for the Canadian television miniseries Les Tisserands du pouvoir (1988), for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also appeared uncredited as Man From Farmyard in Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend (1967).
