Guy Pessiot

Guy Pessiot was born in Rouen, France on 7 May 1949. He studied in Lycée Pierre-Corneille and then later changed to Neoma Business School.

Pessiot co-founded Éditions Génération and the monthly magazine L'Étudiant in 1971 with René Silvestre, serving as its editor-in-chief. In 1976, he created Le P'tit Normand, a practical guide to the Rouen metropolitan area and Éditions du P'tit Normand (which became PTC in 1999) in 1979. He was Michel Bussi's first publisher.^[1]

He became the city councillor for Rouen, then he was elected, in March 2008, third deputy to Valérie Fourneyron. From 2012 to 2020, he was a municipal councillor.

Pessiot was president of the Rouen Seine Valley Normandy Tourist and Convention Bureau from 2008 to 2018 and vice-president of the Tourist Offices of France from 2014 to 2018. In 2019, he was a member of the board of the Rouen Normandy metropolitan area.

Pessiot died on 11 December 2025, at the age of 76.^[2]