Bertrand Le Gendre (born 25 February 1948, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French journalist and essayist.[1]

Bertrand Le Gendre, Paris, France January 2021

Studies

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Private school Institution Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix (Neuilly-sur-Seine), Institute of Political Studies in Paris, law and sociology degrees (Paris University)

Career

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  • Journalist in Le Monde:[2] editor in the Education headline (1974-1979), editor then assistant head in the department of General Informations (1979-1983), head of the Justice column (1983-1987), international reporter (1987-1992), Chief Editor (1993-2006), editorialist (2006-2011)
  • Visiting Professor at Panthéon-Assas University[3] (2000-2011)
  • Head (with Edwy Plenel) of "The Topical subject" collection for Gallimard Publisher (1986-1989)
  • Presenter (with Marc Ferro) of the weekly program "From Current Events to History" on the History Channel (1997-1999)

Published works

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  • 1962, the fantastic year (Denoël, Paris, 2012) ISBN 978-2-207-11161-1
  • Confessions of the n° 2 of the OAS. Talks with Jean-Jacques Susini (Les Arènes, Paris, 2012) ISBN 978-2-35204-188-7
  • Flaubert (Perrin Publisher, "Selfportraits" collection, Paris, 2013) ISBN 978-2-262-03921-9
  • The War of Algeria, the clash of memories (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History : How to understand a changing world" collection, Paris, 2013) ISBN 978-2-36156-103-1
  • De Gaulle, From Rebel to Head of State (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History: They changed the world" collection, Paris, 2014) ISBN 978-2-36156-186-4
  • Kennedy, The Man, the President, the Myth (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History: They changed the world" collection, Paris, 2015) ISBN 978-2-36156-192-5
  • De Gaulle and Mauriac. The Forgotten Dialogue (Fayard, Paris, 2015) ISBN 978-2-213-67215-1
  • Bourguiba, (Fayard, Paris, 2019) ISBN 978-2-213-70038-0
  • Crimes et abus sexuels dans l'Eglise. Le cas du curé d'Uruffe. Ce que disent les archives (Amazon Kindle, 2021) ISBN 978-2-9580075-0-8
  • Enver Hoxha, (Flammarion Publishing , Paris, 2024) ISBN 978-2-0804-3291-9


References

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  1. ^ Bertrand Le Gendre / France Inter "Ancien journaliste au Monde, ancien professeur associé à l'université Panthéon-Assas Paris-II, Bertrand Le Gendre se consacre aujourd'hui à l'écriture."
  2. ^ Rodney Benson (New York University) [1] Archived 2018-12-11 at the Wayback Machine "La fin du Monde? Tradition and change in the french press".
  3. ^ Interview for Paris University [2] Archived June 18, 2013, at the Wayback Machine "Quand une génération avance dans la vie professionnelle..."