Alain Frachon (born 1950) is a French journalist for ''

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 si ...

'', France's centre-left newspaper of record, and the author of several books.

Early life

Alain Frachon was born in 1950. He graduated from the

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(CFJ) in 1974.

Career

Frachon began his career at the

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, where he worked from 1975 to 1985. He was a foreign correspondent for ''Le Monde'' in Jerusalem and Washington, D.C. He succeeded

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as the interim editor-in-chief from November 2012 to March 2013. Frachon is the author of several books.

Selected works

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References

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