Biography

Jean-Paul Frédéric Tristan Baron (11 June 1931 – 2 March 2022) was a French writer. Tristan was born in Sedan, Ardennes, France, on 11 June 1931. He was sent on a mission to Laos, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and China (1964–1986). In 2000, he explained his work in a series of interviews with the critic Jean-Luc Moreau. In 1952, he participated in research conducted by Joel Picton. From 1983 to 2001 he was professor of early Christian and Renaissance iconography at ICART (Paris). Tristan is one of the authors named in Jean-Luc Moreau's 1992 manifesto and anthology La Nouvelle Fiction, alongside Hubert Haddad, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud...Read More