Raymond Bourgine (9 March 1925 – 29 November 1990) was a French journalist and politician.
/ref> He served as editor-in-chief of '' Valeurs Actuelles'' from 1966 to 1990 and as French Senator from 1977 to 1990.

Michel Gurfinkiel Michel Gurfinkiel (1 August 1948, Paris) is a French conservative journalist and public intellectual. He served as editor-in-chief of '' Valeurs Actuelles'' from 1985 to 2006. Biography He served as editor-in-chief of '' Perspectives'' from 1984 to ...

Raymond Bourgine dans le texte
''Valeurs actuelles'', 02/12/2010

Early life

Raymond Bourgine was born on March 9, 1925, in Diégo-Suarez,

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. He grew up in the

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and Madagascar, and joined the French Army in Africa during the

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Journalism

In 1945, Bourgine started writing for '' Paris-Matin'', followed by ''

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'' in 1946 and ''Aux Écoutes de la Finance'' in 1947, before becoming its editor-in-chief in 1948. In 1957, he bought ''Aux Écoutes de la Finance'', then known as ''Finance'', from '. In 1962, he launched the luxury magazine ''

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''. In 1966, he founded the publisher

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. The same year, he renamed ''Finance'' ''Valeurs actuelles''. In 1967, he founded '' Le Nouveau Journal'', and led the Financial and Economics Agency from 1967 to 1970. He served as editor-in-chief of ''Valeurs actuelles'' until his death, when his protege

François d'Orcival Amaury de Chaunac-Lanzac (born 11 February 1942), better known as François d'Orcival, is a French conservative journalist and essayist. He is the president of the editorial committee at '' Valeurs Actuelles'' and sits on the board of directors of ...

took over.Pascal Dillane
Un ancien dirigeant de l’extrême droite représente la presse française
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Politics

A proponent of

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, Bourgine supported

Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour (12 October 1907 – 29 September 1989) was a French lawyer and far-right politician. Elected to the National Assembly in 1936, he initially collaborated with the Vichy regime before leaving for Tunisia in 1941. After ...

in 1965. He supported

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for president in 1969. Close to

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, he joined the Centre national des indépendants et paysans (CNIP) in 1971. From 1977 to 1983, he served as member of the

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for the

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and advisor to the Mayor of Paris,

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. He was elected to the

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in 1977, and again in 1986 under the leadership of

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. In 1987, he joined the senatorial organization for France-

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n relations. He was also a fierce champion of

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and

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and, like his avatar

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, he supported the

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. He rejected the 1981 nationalisation legislations, and in 1985 he rejected government funding of the press. He sat on the Board of Trustees of the

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Death

Grave. Bourgine died on November 29, 1990, in Paris. He is buried in

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References

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