Life
While he obtained a licenture in Law , Patrice de Plunkett's professional life has focused on journalism. He first worked in the weekly magazine Valeurs actuelles in 1972. At present he writes editorials for a monthly magazine of the same editorial group, Valmonde.
Patrice once fought Christianity. During the student revolutions of 1968, he broke away from the Christian faith.
In 1979, he became the editor-in-chief of the newly created Le Figaro Magazine, which remained close to the Nouvelle Droite until 1981.
He broke away from atheism in 1980, and converted to Catholicism in 1985, after having gone on a trip to Israel, especially to the places where Jesus lived. Another influence was a visit to a Benedictine monastery.
His expertise is in analyzing social questions, especially those of a socio-economic vein. He received the Award of History of Institutions and of Social Events from the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris.
Recently he has written about Benedict XVI and Opus Dei. On account of the Da Vinci Code, he has been giving interviews about Opus Dei on TV, radio, and to the press.
Patrice de Plunkett is a member of the editorial committee of the Catholic review Kephas. He is also a member of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
Le Figaro is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, Le Figaro is one of three French newspapers of record, along with Le Monde and Libération.
Opus Dei, formally known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, is an institution of the Catholic Church whose members seek personal Christian holiness and strive to imbue their work and society with Christian principles.
Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest. He founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness by God and that ordinary life can result in sanctity. He was canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II, who declared Josemaría should be "counted among the great witnesses of Christianity."
Albert Memmi was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian-Jewish origins.
Julián Herranz Casado is a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts in the Roman Curia from 1994 to 2007, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003.
This is a bibliography of works about Opus Dei, also known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, which was founded by Josemaría Escrivá.
Opus Dei is a personal prelature within the Roman Church that has been the subject of numerous controversies. Throughout its history, Opus Dei has been criticized by many, including by numerary members who knew the founder and had roles in Opus Dei's internal government. The reports by former members in the USA, England, Spain, Latin America, France, Germany, and other countries are published. Journalists have described it as "the most controversial force in the Catholic Church" and its founder Josemaría Escrivá as a "polarizing" figure.
Les Temps Modernes is a French journal, founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It first issue was published in October 1945. It was named after the 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin.
Louis Pauwels was a French journalist and writer.
Ruggero Raimondi is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures.
Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions.
Benoît Duteurtre is a French novelist and essayist. He is also a musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music. He spends his time between Paris, New York and Normandy.
Lawrence D. Kritzman, an American scholar, is the Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He has previously held the Willard Professorship of French, Comparative Literature, and Oratory, the Edward Tuck Professorship in French, and the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professorship in the Humanities. He has written works on, edited works on, or given lectures on Barthes, Foucault, Kristeva, Sartre, Camus, Malraux, Derrida, Montaigne, de Beauvoir, and others, focusing especially on twentieth- and twenty-first century French philosophy and intellectual history. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, he has innovated sixteenth century French studies in his readings of Marguerite de Navarre, Scève, Ronsard, Rabelais, Montaigne, and the poètes rhétoriqueurs.
Jacques Dubois, Professor emeritus of Literature at the Université de Liège invented the concept of the Literary Institution following the work of Pierre Bourdieu by analogy with other social institutions such as military, medical, and political. He is also a Member of the Groupe µ. In 1983, he was the main editor of the Manifesto for Walloon culture.
The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the National Front (FN), which Macron won with a difference of more than 30% of the vote. The presidential election was followed by a legislative election to elect members of the National Assembly on 11 and 18 June. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) was eligible to run for a second term, but declared on 1 December 2016 that he would not seek reelection in light of low approval ratings, making him the first incumbent head of state of the Fifth Republic not to seek reelection.
L'Opus Dei : enquête sur le "monstre" is a French-language journalistic and historical work of Patrice de Plunkett about Opus Dei, an institution of the Catholic Church. Plunkett was the editor of the French magazine Le Figaro. His book was released on 17 May 2006, the debut of the film The Da Vinci Code which portrayed Opus Dei in a negative light. The purpose of the book is to inform the public about the Catholic Church, Christianity and Opus Dei, and to understand the black legend against Opus Dei.
Jacques Julliard is a French historian, columnist and essayist, and a former union leader. He is the author of numerous books.
Emmanuel Tawil is a French lawyer and academic, associate professor at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. As a lawyer, he defended the families of the victims during the trial of the Gdeim Izik protest camp.
Henri Tincq was a French journalist and Vatican expert.
