| Eugénie Bastié | |
| Caption: | Bastié in 2017 |
| Birth Name: | Eugénie Bastié |
| Birth Date: | 1991 11, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Toulouse, France |
| Education: | |
| Occupation: | Journalist, writer |
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Eugénie Bastié (born 18 November 1991) is a French journalist and essayist. Bastié is a political commentator on television news channel CNews and a contributor to the conservative Le Figaro newspaper. She is the author of three books and numerous essays.
Eugénie Bastié was born in Toulouse on 18 November 1991.[1] She is one of four children raised in a Catholic household,[2] where her father worked as a landscaper and her mother specialised in nuclear medicine. She grew up in the village of Pibrac, near Toulouse.[3]
Bastié was educated at the private, boarding school Saint Jean de Lectoure[4] then attended the Paris Institute of Political Studies, graduating in 2014 with a Master in Public Affairs (MPA). She went on to earn a master's degree in Philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne University.[5]
While still a student at Sciences Po, Bastié began contributing to the French magazine Causeur, with her first article published in December 2012.[6] In 2013 she completed a 6 months internship at Figaro-Vox, the opinion and debate platform of Le Figaro newspaper where she was subsequently hired.[7] In 2015, she co-launched Limite, a magazine dedicated to Integral Ecology, a central theme of Catholic Social Teaching.
In September 2015, Bastié made a notable appearance on the television program Ce soir (ou jamais!) where she engaged in a spirited debate against Jacques Attali, delving into the topic of refugees and immigration.[8] In April 2016 she published her first essay (Goodbye, Mademoiselle: The defeat of women). In September 2016 she briefly joined the program AcTualiTy, on the French public TV channel France 2. During this time, she also contribute to Patrick Buisson's program Historiquement show on the TV channel Histoire and to 24h Pujadas on La Chaîne Info.
In April 2017 Bastié became a columnist on Le Figaro débats et opinions page. In October 2018 she published her second essay (The Scapepig: Terror or counterrevolution). While promoting the book on a France Inter radio program, she expressed her criticism of what she saw as "excessive victimisation" stemming from the MeToo movement.[9] In 2019 she left Limite, the magazine that she co-founded.[10]
During the 2019–20 season Bastié contributed to the program on BFMTV as columnist, she also contributed to the program, debating current affairs opposing Alain Duhamel.[11] In July 2020 she left the network to become a political commentator on television news channel CNews; In May 2021 Bastié hosted her own show entitled . In September 2021 she joined with two other commentators in replacement of Eric Zemmour.[12] In 2022 she launched a new program on Figaro TV titled, and started a new program on the radio station Europe 1.[13] In 2023 Bastié published a new essay called (The dictatorship of feelings),[14] and (Save the difference between the sexes).
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