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Le Monde was founded in 1944, [8] [9] at the request of General Charles de Gaulle, after the German army had been driven from Paris during World War II.The paper took over the headquarters and layout of Le Temps, which had been the most important newspaper in France, but its reputation had suffered during the Occupation. [10]
It became L'Observateur aujourd'hui in 1953 and France-Observateur in 1954. The name Le Nouvel Observateur was adopted in 1964. [4] The 1964 incarnation of the magazine was founded by Jean Daniel and Claude Perdriel. [5] The head office is in the building to the left, 10–12 Place de la Bourse, Paris
Le Monde diplomatique was founded in 1954 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, founder and director of Le Monde, the French newspaper of record.Subtitled the "organ of diplomatic circles and of large international organisations, [9]" 5,000 copies were distributed, comprising eight pages, dedicated to foreign policy and geopolitics.
The group is controlled by the company Le Monde Libre, which possesses 72.5%. [10] This company is controlled in equal shares by Le Nouveau Monde ( Matthieu Pigasse and Daniel Kretinsky ), NJJ Presse ( Xavier Niel ) and Berlys Media (Madison Cox), who each possess 26.66% of the shares, the 20% remaining belonging to the Spanish media group Prisa .
Wieviorka is the founder and editor of the sociological journal Le Monde des Debats and was, with Georges Balandier, co-edited the Cahiers internationaux de sociologie until its publication was stopped at the end of 2010 (Avant-propos, Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, Vol. 128-129, 2010).
Bernard Delvaille (1 December 1931 – 18 April 2006) was a French poet, essayist, translator and anthologist.. A graduate from the Institut d’Études Politiques, he entered the publishing business in the early 1950s as a reader for Éditions Denoël, before collaborating with Éditions Seghers [] in 1956, where he did various editorial work.
Jean Fourastié (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fuʁastje]; 15 April 1907 – 25 July 1990) was a French civil servant, economist, professor and public intellectual.He coined the expression Trente Glorieuses ("the glorious thirty [years]") to describe the period of prosperity that France experienced from the end of World War II until the 1973 oil crisis.
Wladimir d'Ormesson was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where his father, Count Olivier d'Ormesson, served as a diplomat.He was the uncle of Jean d'Ormesson, also a writer who, like himself, would be elected a member of the Académie Française. [1]