François René Jean Lucien Bayrou is a French politician who has presided over the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since he founded it in 2007. A centrist, he was a candidate in the 2002, 2007 and 2012 presidential elections. He has also presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004.
Henri Troyat was a Russian-French author, biographer, historian and novelist.
Alain Maurice Jacques Duhamel is a prominent French journalist and political commentator.
Georges Suarez (1890–1944) was a French writer, essayist and journalist. Initially a pacifist, then a collaborator, he was also the biographer of Pétain and other figures of the French Third Republic. He was the first journalist sentenced to death during the Épuration légale.
Anne Sinclair is a French-American television and radio interviewer. She hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, the largest European private TV channel. She is heiress to much of the fortune of her maternal grandfather, art dealer Paul Rosenberg. She covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for the French Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche and the French TV channel Canal+. She married French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 1991 and divorced him in 2013 in the aftermath of the New York v. Strauss-Kahn case. She was portrayed in the 2014 feature film Welcome to New York.
Stephen William Smith is an American biographer, editor, journalist, and writer. He is a former editor of the French daily newspaper Libération and the former deputy editor of the foreign desk at Le Monde. For many years he worked as a traveling correspondent for Radio France International and Reuters News Agency in West and Central Africa.
Patrick Rambaud is a French writer.
Alexandre Najjar is a Lebanese and French writer, lawyer and literary critic. He was born in Beirut and studied at Panthéon-Assas University and University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He holds a Doctorate in Business administration and is specialized in banking and finance law. He is the author of more than 30 books translated into more than 12 languages. In addition to poetry and novels, he has written non fiction works like the biography of Khalil Gibran, the author of The Prophet., a book about the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Nazi Germany and a book about the Arab Spring.
Raphaële Billetdoux is a French novelist.
Érik Izraelewicz was a French journalist and author, specialised in economics and finance. From February 2011 he was director and editorial executive of the daily Le Monde, after having held the same position at the financial daily newspapers Les Echos and La Tribune.
Claude Dulong-Sainteny or Marguerite-Claude Badalo-Dulong or Claude Dulong was a French historian.
Bernard Chapuis is a French writer and journalist.
Stéphane Denis is a French journalist and writer.
Alain Dugrand is a French journalist, traveler and writer.
Clara Dupont-Monod is a French journalist and woman of letters. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 2021.
Philippe Grimbert is a French writer and psychoanalyst.
Karine Tuil is a French novelist who has written several award-winning novels in French and English. Her works have themes ranging from marriage and Jewish identity to detention centers and corporate politics.
Catherine Nay is a French political columnist and commentator.
Maria Michela Marzano is an Italian researcher, philosopher and writer. Politically connected to the Italian left, she was elected a Member of the Italian Parliament for the Democratic Party in February 2013.
Anna Cabana is a French journalist and writer.
