Claude Julien (journalist)
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Claude JulienClaude Julien (May 17, 1925, Saint-Rome-de-Cernon
Saint-Rome-de-Cernon
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 (Aveyron
Aveyron
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, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

) — May 5, 2005) was a French journalist, editor of French newspaper of record Le Monde
Le Monde
Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

in 1969 and editor-in-chief then director of Le Monde diplomatique
Le Monde diplomatique
Le Monde diplomatique is a monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first created mainly for a diplomatic audience as its name implies...

.

A member of the Resistance
French Resistance
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 during World War II
World War II
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, during the Liberation he founded the newspaper Debout (Standing Up or On Our Feet). After studying political science
Political science
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 at the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
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 in Indiana
Indiana
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 (USA), he became a French journalist specializing in the USA.

In France, he became a journalist for the Vie catholique illustrée (1949-51), then editor-in-chief of La Dépêche marocaine
La Dépêche marocaine
La Dépêche marocaine was a daily francophone Moroccan newspaper published in Tangier. It is considered the oldest published newspaper in Morocco after being founded by Rober-Raynaud in 1905....

 de Tanger
. He joined the foreign service of Le Monde in 1951, and became its director in 1969. He then becomes editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique in 1973. Elected to succeed Jacques Fauvet as director of Le Monde in 1981, he was forced to resign some months afterward following political division among the newspaper staff, and returned to Le Monde diplomatique.

Non-exhaustive bibliography

  • Puissance et faiblesses des syndicats américains (1955)
  • L'Amérique en révolution (1956)
  • le Nouveau Nouveau Monde (1960)
  • Le Canada, dernière chance de l'Europe (1965)
  • L'Empire américain (1968)
  • Le Suicide des démocraties, Grasset, Paris, 1972
  • Le devoir d'irrespect (1979)
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