Bertrand Le Gendre

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) ISBN 978-2-207-11161-1
• Confessions of the n° 2 of the OAS. Talks with Jean-Jacques Susini (Les Arènes, Paris, 2012) ISBN 978-2-35204-188-7
• Flaubert (Perrin Publisher, "Selfportraits" collection, Paris, 2013) ISBN 978-2-262-03921-9
• The War of Algeria, the clash of memories (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History : How to understand a changing world" collection, Paris, 2013) ISBN 978-2-36156-103-1
• De Gaulle, From Rebel to Head of State (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History: They changed the world" collection, Paris, 2014) ISBN 978-2-36156-186-4
• Kennedy, The Man, the President, the Myth (collaboration) (Le Monde, "World History: They changed the world" collection, Paris, 2015) ISBN 978-2-36156-192-5
• De Gaulle and Mauriac. The Forgotten Dialogue (Fayard, Paris, 2015) ISBN 978-2-213-67215-1
• Bourguiba, (Fayard, Paris, 2019) ISBN 978-2-213-70038-0
• Crimes et abus sexuels dans l'Eglise. Le cas du curé d'Uruffe. Ce que disent les archives (Amazon Kindle, 2021) ISBN 978-2-9580075-0-8

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