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Charb (Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier) was born on 21 August, 1967 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, is a French satirist and journalist. Discover Charb's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

Popular As Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier
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Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 21 August, 1967
Birthday 21 August
Birthplace Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France
Date of death 2015
Died Place Paris 11e, France
Nationality France

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1967

Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier (21 August 1967 – 7 January 2015), better known as Charb, was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist.

Stéphane Charbonnier was born in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on 21 August 1967 and raised in Pontoise, the son of Michel Jean-Marie Charbonnier.

His mother, Denise Renée-Marie Charbonnier, née Ouvrard, worked as a secretary and his father worked as a technician for Postes, télégraphes et téléphones.

His grandparents, Jean and Lucette Marie-Andrée (née Brunet) owned a grocery store in Pontoise.

Stéphane's talent for drawing was discovered in school and he published his first drawings in Echo des collégiens at the age of fourteen.

He continued to draw while studying at Lycée Camille Pissarro.

1980

In the late 1980s he started working as a cartoonist.

His work included creating cartoons for the newspaper Les Nouvelles du Val-d'Oise and a magazine for the in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône.

Later freelance work by Charb included cartoons for L'Écho des savanes, Télérama, and L'Humanité.

1992

He worked for several newspapers and magazines, joining Charlie Hebdo in 1992 and becoming the director of publication in 2009.

Due to the publication of Muhammad cartoons, Charb became subject to death threats from extremist Muslims.

2007

In 2007 and 2008, he was a set cartoonist on the talk show T'empêches tout le monde de dormir on television channel M6.

He was a long-time supporter of the French Communist Party.

He also drew cartoons for anti-racism organizations such as MRAP.

2011

From the time the magazine was firebombed in 2011, he lived under police protection until his assassination.

On 2 November 2011, Charlie Hebdo was firebombed just before its 3 November issue was due to be published; the issue was entitled Charia Hebdo and satirically featured the Islamic prophet, Muhammad as guest-editor.

Charb and two of his co-workers at Charlie Hebdo subsequently received police protection.

2012

In September 2012, a man was arrested in La Rochelle, allegedly for having called for the beheading of Charb on a Jihadist website.

In a 2012 interview Charb was quoted as saying, "I am not afraid of reprisals, I have no children, no wife, no car, no debt. It might sound a bit pompous, but I'd prefer to die on my feet than to live on my knees."

2013

In 2013 he illustrated the book "The Life of Muhammad", depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

Al-Qaeda put Charb on their "most-wanted list" in 2013, after he edited an edition of Charlie Hebdo that satirised radical muslims.

Also on that list was Lars Vilks, as well as three Jyllands-Posten staff members: Kurt Westergaard (whose cartoons Charlie Hebdo had published), Carsten Juste, and Flemming Rose.

Being a sport shooter, Charb applied for permit to be able to carry a firearm for self-defence.

The application was, however, not approved.

On the week of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, a Charb illustration in issue for that week observed that there had not been any terrorist attacks in France, with a caricatured armed jihadist fighter turning a customary French phrase to malicious use: "Wait! ... we still have until the end of January to present our wishes" — a reference to the French tradition of offering New Year's greetings until the end of January.

Charbonnier was an atheist and pacifist.

Two days prior to his death, Charb had completed an essay on Islamophobia.

One year after the massacre, it was translated to and published in English, with a foreword by Adam Gopnik, under the title Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression.

2015

He was assassinated during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.

The police officer protecting Charb on 7 January 2015 was also killed by the shooters.

He joined Charlie Hebdo in 1992 and was its director of publication from 2009 until his death on 7 January 2015.

Charb's comic strip, Maurice et Patapon featured Maurice, a dog described by the newspaper Libération as leftist, pacifist, outgoing, and omnisexual, and a cat, Patapon, who is conservative, violent, asexual, and perverse.

Libération described the series as philosophical and scatological.

Charb also drew the character "Marcel Keuf, le flic" ("Marcel Pig, the cop") in Fluide Glacial.

Charb's column in Charlie Hebdo was titled "Charb n'aime pas les gens" ("Charb does not like people").

One of his regular pieces was the monthly La fatwa de l'Ayatollah Charb (The Fatwa of the Ayatollah Charb) in Fluide Glacial.

Charb was killed, with seven of his colleagues, two police officers, and two other people on 7 January 2015 when a pair of gunmen stormed the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices in Paris.

One of the police officers killed, Franck Brinsolaro, was Charb's bodyguard.

His funeral was held in Pontoise and included speeches by Luz, Patrick Pelloux, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and Pierre Laurent.

The government ministers Christiane Taubira, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, and Fleur Pellerin also attended the funeral.