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Albert Londres Prize
The Albert Londres Prize is the highest French journalism award, named in honor of journalist Albert Londres. Created in 1932, it was first awarded in 1933 and is considered the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Three laureates are awarded each year. The three categories are : "best reporter in the written press", "best audiovisual reporter" and "best reporting book". History On the death of Albert Londres, on 16 May 1932, his daughter, Florise Martinet-Londres, decided to create an award in his memory. From 1933, the Albert Londres prize is awarded every year on May 16, to a young journalist under the age of forty. Florise Martinet-Londres died in 1975. The Albert Londres Prize is administered by the Association of Albert Londres Prize, comprising the various winners. Chaired for 21 years by Henri Amouroux, it is chaired since May 2006 by Josette Alia. The prize is awarded by a jury of 19 journalists and winners of the previous year. In 1985, under the influence of Henri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Du Seuil
Éditions du Seuil (), also known as ''Le Seuil'', is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (threshold) is the whole excitement of parting and arriving. It is also the brand new threshold that we refashion at the door of the Church to allow entry to many whose foot gropes around it" (Jean Plaquevent, letter dated 28 December 1934). Description Éditions du Seuil was the publisher of the ''Don Camillo'' series, and of Chairman Mao Zedong's ''Little Red Book''. The large sales that these generated have allowed the house to publish more specialized titles, particularly in the social sciences. Seuil is widely respected in the publishing world, maintaining good relations with its authors. Seuil has published works by Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers (in his first period), and later by Edgar Morin, Maurice Genevoix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Grasset
The Grasset Editions () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). History Founder In 1913, Bernard Grasset publishes the first volume of ''À la recherche du temps perdu'', by Marcel Proust, '' Du côté de chez Swann'', without reading it, and in 1920, André Maurois, François Mauriac, Henry de Montherlant, Paul Morand (called the 4 M) and later on: Raymond Radiguet, Blaise Cendrars, André Malraux, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Fernand de Brinon, Jacques Doriot, Abel Bonnard, Jacques Chardonne, Georges Blond and Adolf Hitler. He is condemned, in 1945, for his collaboration with the nazis and receives Electroconvulsive therapy in Ville-d'Avray, for mental illness. Publishing house In 1959, Bernard Privat merge the '' éditions Fasquelle'' with Grasset. Jean-Claude Fasquelle becomes also the director of the ''Magazine Littéraire'', in 1970. In 1975, Grasset's literary director, Yves Berger also Pierre Sabbagh's cultural adviser on the 2nd channel of Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Franco
Victor Franco (1930 in Baghdad – 18 February 2018) was a French journalist who was awarded the 1963 Albert Londres Prize fo''La Révolution sensuelle'' He died in Montélimar on 18 February 2018 at the age of 87. References External links Victor Franco on the site of Éditions Grasset
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Max Clos
Max Clos (6 January 1925, Ludwigshafen – 9 March 2002) was a 20th-century French journalistMort du journaliste Max Clos', Libération, 9 mars 2002 and the former editor-in-chief of ''Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of r ...'' from 1975 to 1988. Prizes *1962 : Prix Albert-Londres Bibliography *1969: ''L'Année du singe'' *1970: ''La Revanche des deux vaincus : Allemagne-Japon'' (with Yves Cuau) References External links ''Max Clos, journaliste et éditorialiste au « Figaro », est décédé''on '' La Croix'' (11 March 2002) Max Closon Who's Who? {{DEFAULTSORT:Clos, Max 20th-century French journalists Albert Londres Prize recipients 1925 births 2002 deaths People from Ludwigshafen Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Le Figaro people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plon (publisher)
Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers. The Plon family were Walloons coming from Nivelles, Belgium. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish typographer Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century. History The ''Éditions Plon'' were created in 1852, by Henri Plon and his two brothers. They were given the title of ''Imprimeur de l’Empereur'' (Imperial publisher) and published the correspondence of Louis XIII of France, Marie Antoinette and Napoleon I of France. During the 1920s the house published the novels of the Jewish-Algerian writer Elissa Rhaïs. Plon published Quid, an encyclopedia, from 1963 to 1974. They were acquired by the Groupe de La Cité, which was later acquired in 1988 by Havas. In 2001, Havas was itself absorbed by Vivendi, then called ''Vivendi Universal''. The Vivendi group, facing financial troubles, sold several publishing companies, including Plon, to Wendel Investissement, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website since 19 December 1995, and is often the only French newspaper easily obtainable in non-French-speaking countries. It is considered one of the French newspapers of record, along with '' Libération'', and ''Le Figaro''. It should not be confused with the monthly publication '' Le Monde diplomatique'', of which ''Le Monde'' has 51% ownership, but which is editorially independent. A Reuters Institute poll in 2021 in France found that "''Le Monde'' is the most trusted national newspaper". ''Le Monde'' was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marc Théolleyre
Jean-Marc Théolleyre (31 July 1924 – 12 June 2001) was a 20th-century French journalist. Biography *1943: Resistant in Lyon and then in Toulouse, he was arrested and deported to Buchenwald for nearly two years and was released in 1945. *November 1945: joined ''Le Monde'' as reporter. Professional card #6312. *1950-1957: Judicial Chronicler in ''Le Monde''. During this period he followed some of the great post-war trials like that oAmélie Rabilloud Marie Besnard, Oradour-sur-Glane, the Dominici affair, and Jacques Fesch. *April 1957 – November 1957: Senior reporter for '' Le Figaro littéraire''. *November 1957: Senior reporter for ''Paris-Journal''. *1959: Retuened to ''Le Monde'', a chief reporter and a judicial columnist. He covered trials linkes to the Algerian war as well as the réseau Jeanson, general Salan, the , and . *1970-75: Permanent envoy for the Rhône-Alpes region. *From 1975: Literary critic and senior reporter in charge of the judicial chronic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Olivier-Lacamp
Max Olivier-Lacamp (March 2, 1914 Le Havre – June 17, 1983 Meudon) is a French journalist and writer, winner of the Prix Renaudot The Prix ThĂ©ophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot () is a French literary award. History The prize was created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt. While not officially related to the ... in 1969, and Albert Londres Prize in 1958. Biography Max Olivier, also known as Max-Olivier Lacamp, was a reporter for ''Le Figaro'' and reported on the Partition of India, in 1947. His book, ''Between the two Asias'', is devoted to the difference between Asian Indian and Far East.'' TĂ©lĂ© 7 Jours'', 554, 5 dĂ©cembre 1970, pages 80 et 81, Ă l'occasion de la diffusion du film ''Kim'' (1951) de Victor Saville le 11 dĂ©cembre 1970 dans le cadre des '' Dossiers de l'Ă©cran'' ayant pour thème l'Inde. Family He lived in Korea, and married a Korean. He is the father of the writer Ysabelle Lacamp. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Soir
''France Soir'' ( en, France Evening) was a French newspaper that prospered in physical format during the 1950s and 1960s, reaching a circulation of 1.5 million in the 1950s. It declined rapidly under various owners and was relaunched as a populist tabloid in 2006. However, the company went bankrupt on 23 July 2012, before re-emerging as an online-only media in 2016. In 2020, according to NewsGuard, this media "fails to adhere to several basic journalistic standards". History ''France Soir'' was founded as the underground paper ''Défense de la France'' ("Defense of France") by young resistance leaders, Robert Salmon and Philippe Viannay, in 1941. The first editions were printed on a Rotaprint 3 offset printing machine hidden in the cellars of the Sorbonne. Distributed to Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon and to Britain by the resistance networks Combat and Témoignage chrétien, ''Défense de la France'' became the largest circulation newspaper in the underground press, with 45 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Puissesseau
René Puissesseau (25 September 1919 – 7 July 1970, Siem Reap) was a French journalist and chief reporter working for the ORTF. For a long time he headed the political service of ''France-Soir'' In 1957, he received the Albert Londres Prize for his reportages compiled under the titl''Quelqu'un mourra ce soir aux Caraïbes'' Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Ga .... He later participated in the famous television magazine Cinq colonnes à la une. He died age 50 in Cambodia in the exercise of his duties, as did Raymond Meyer (26 years), cameraman. Alain Clément, the soundman, was the only member of the trio not to be victim of the bullets fired at their exit of the Angkor Vat temple. External links Hommage aux journalistes disparus ou morts en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La DĂ©pĂŞche Du Midi
''La Dépêche'', formally ''La Dépêche du Midi'', is a regional daily newspaper published in Toulouse in Southwestern France with seventeen editions for different areas of the Midi-Pyrénées region. The main local editions are for Toulouse, Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne. History and profile The newspaper first appeared on 2 October 1870 when it was called ''La Dépêche de Toulouse''. ... En cette année anniversaire de la création de « La Dépêche du Midi », fondée en 1870, Publication was prompted by workers at the Sirven print works in Toulouse, which established the paper's |
