Monique Pantel

Biography

Monique Pantel (11 December 1932 – 7 April 2021) was a French film critic and journalist. She worked for RTL, France Inter and Europe 1. Born into a family of hoteliers, she left Mont-de-Marsan to become a hotel receptionist in England, then in Paris. There she meets the playwright Jacques Audiberti, for an interim secretary contract, and becomes her companion during the last three years of her life. He introduces her to the Paris-Presse newspaper in July 1964, and she writes for the entertainm…