A few days ago in Le Monde‘s obituary pages:
Born in Nantua (Jura) in 1939, a former student of the École Normale Supérieure, Jean-Claude Berchet was the editor of the Mémoires d’outre-tombe in the memorable Classiques Garnier collection with its highly recognizable yellow cover, as well as the author of a well-received biography of Chateaubriand published in 2012.
Gabriel François