Raymond Bourgine
 Raymond Bourgine    (journalist, editor) | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 9, 1925 Diégo-Suarez, Madagascar |
| Died | November 29, 1990 (Age 65) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Member of | Le Cercle |
French journalist and editor who attended Le Cercle. | |
Raymond Bourgine was a French journalist and editor who attended Le Cercle.
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Background
Raymond Bourgine was born on March 9, 1925, in Diégo-Suarez, Madagascar.[1] He grew up in the Réunion and Magadascar, and joined the French Army in Africa during the Second World War.[1]
Journalism
In 1945, he started writing for Paris-Matin, followed by La Vie française in 1946 and Aux Écoutes de la Finance in 1947, before becoming its editor-in-chief in 1948.[1][2] In 1957, he bought Aux Écoutes de la Finance, then known as Finance, from Paul Lévy'.[1] In 1962, he launched the luxury magazine Le Spectacle du Monde.[1] In 1966, he founded the publisher Valmonde.[1] The same year, he renamed Finance Valeurs actuelles.[1][3] In 1967, he founded Le Nouveau Journal, and led the Financial and Economics Agency from 1967 to 1970.[1] He was editor-in-chief of Valeurs actuelles until his death, when his protege (and fellow Le Cercle attendee) François d'Orcival took over.[4][5][6][7]
Politics
A proponent of French Algeria, he supported Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour in 1965.[1] He supported Georges Pompidou for president in 1969.[1] He joined the Centre national des indépendants et paysans (CNIP) in 1971.[1] From 1977 to 1983, he served as member of the Council of Paris for the Rassemblement pour la République and advisor to the Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac.[1] He was elected to the French Senate in 1977, and again in 1986 under the leadership of Maurice Couve de Murville.[1] In 1987, he joined the senatorial organization for France-South African relations.[1] He was also a fierce champion of capitalism and free enterprise and, like his avatar Alexis de Tocqueville, he supported the freedom of the press.[1] He rejected the 1981 nationalisation legislations, and in 1985 he rejected government funding of the press.[1] He sat on the Board of Trustees of the Centre Georges-Pompidou.[1]
Deep Political connections
He was close to Antoine Pinay and attended Le Cercle.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Cercle/1985 (Washington) | 7 January 1985 | 10 January 1985 | US Washington DC | 4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Washington exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011 |
References
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Senate biography
- ↑ Giles Scott-Smith, Networks of Empire: The US State Department's Foreign Leader Program in the Netherlands, France and Britain 1950-1970, European Interuniversity Press, 2008, p. 446
- ↑ Xavier Ternisien, Une filière "Valeurs actuelles" à la tête du "Figaro", Le Monde, 19/07/2012
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedgurfinkiel - ↑ Pascal Dillane, Un ancien dirigeant de l’extrême droite représente la presse française, ACRIMED, February 2005
- ↑ J.G. Shields, The Extreme Right in France: From Petain to Le Pen, Routledge, 2006, p. 153 [1]
- ↑ Valérie Auda-André, David Bensoussan, Nigel Copsey, Olivier Dard, Richard Griffiths, Bertrand Joly, Magali Della Sudda, Jean Vavasseur-Desperriers, Philippe Vervaecke, A droite de la droite : Droites radicales en France et en Grande-Bretagne au XXe siècle, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2012, p. 540 [2]
