Pierre Lescure (born c. 1945) is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal+ channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002. He was the president of the Cannes Film Festival from 2014 to 2022.
Early life and education
Pierre Lescure was born around 1945[1] in Paris, France, the son of, French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper L'Humanité, and the grandson of , founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi.
He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris.