Fabrice Lhomme (born 1965) is a French investigative 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 ...

''.

Early life

Fabrice Lhomme was born on 17 November 1965. He was educated in a boarding school in

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

. He attended

François Rabelais University The University of Tours (french: Université de Tours), formerly François Rabelais University of Tours (french: Université François Rabelais), is a public university in Tours, France. Founded in 1969, the university was formerly named after th ...

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 ...

, where he studied History and Journalism, but he failed to graduate.

Career

Lhomme became a journalist for '' Le Parisien'' in 1989. He has been an investigative journalist for ''Le Monde'' since 2011. Lhomme is the co-author of several books with Gérard Davet. Two books, ''Sarko m'a tuer'' and ''Sarko s'est tuer'', are about President

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Se ...

. Another book, ''L'homme qui voulut être roi'', is about

Gaston Flosse Gaston Flosse (born 24 June 1931) is a French politician who has been President of French Polynesia on five separate occasions. He is currently a member of the Senate of France and has been a French junior minister under Jacques Chirac. He receiv ...

. Two more books, ''French corruption'' and ''La clef : révélations sur la fraude fiscale du siècle'', are about allegations of political corruptions and tax evasion in France. Their sixth book, ''"Un président ne devrait pas dire ça..."'', is based on interviews with President Francois Hollande.

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References

Living people 1965 births University of Tours alumni French investigative journalists {{France-journalist-stub