Bertrand Le Gendre Explained

Bertrand Le Gendre (born 25 February 1948, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French journalist and essayist.^[1]

Studies

Private school Institution Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix (Neuilly-sur-Seine), Institute of Political Studies in Paris, law and sociology degrees (Paris University)

Career

• Journalist in Le Monde:^[2] editor in the Education headline (1974-1979), editor then assistant head in the department of General Informations (1979-1983), head of the Justice column (1983-1987), international reporter (1987-1992), Chief Editor (1993-2006), editorialist (2006-2011)
• Visiting Professor at Panthéon-Assas University^[3] (2000-2011)
• Head (with Edwy Plenel) of "The Topical subject" collection for Gallimard Publisher (1986-1989)
• Presenter (with Marc Ferro) of the weekly program "From Current Events to History" on the History Channel (1997-1999)

Published works

• 1962, the fantastic year (Denoël, Paris, 2012)
• Confessions of the n° 2 of the OAS. Talks with Jean-Jacques Susini (Les Arènes, Paris, 2012)
• Flaubert (Perrin Publisher, "Selfportraits" collection, Paris, 2013)
• The War of Algeria, the clash of memories (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History : How to understand a changing world" collection, Paris, 2013)
• De Gaulle, From Rebel to Head of State (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History: They changed the world" collection, Paris, 2014)
• Kennedy, The Man, the President, the Myth (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History: They changed the world" collection, Paris, 2015)
• De Gaulle and Mauriac. The Forgotten Dialogue (Fayard, Paris, 2015)
• Bourguiba, (Fayard, Paris, 2019)
• Crimes et abus sexuels dans l'Eglise. Le cas du curé d'Uruffe. Ce que disent les archives (Amazon Kindle, 2021)
• Enver Hoxha, (Flammarion Publishing, Paris, 2024)

Notes and References

1. http://www.franceinter.fr/personne-bertrand-le-gendre Bertrand Le Gendre / France Inter
2. Rodney Benson (New York University) http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/000/731/Benson%20le%20monde%20best%20copy.pdf "La fin du Monde? Tradition and change in the french press".
3. Interview for Paris University http://ecolejournalismeifp.com//?s=BERTRAND+LE+GENDRE&search=Go "Quand une génération avance dans la vie professionnelle..."