Parent company | Sud Communication |
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Founded | 1966 |
Founder | Raymond Bourgine |
Country of origin | France |
Headquarters location | Paris |
Publication types | Magazines |
Official website | www |
Valmonde is a French publisher of magazines. [1] Its main publications are Valeurs Actuelles and Jours de Chasse . [2]
It was founded in 1966 by Raymond Bourgine. [2] In the 1960s, Bourgine funded the Federation of Nationalist Students (FEN) in exchange for their members to sell copies of Le Spectacle du Monde . [3] The editor of the FEN's publication, Les Cahiers universitaires, was François d'Orcival, former editor in chef of the French weekly magazineValeurs Actuelles. [3]
It was incorporated in 1997 and became a subsidiary of Sud Communication in 2006. [1] It is headquartered in Paris. [1] [4] Valmonde was acquired in 2015 by Privinvest Medias. [5]
The Valmonde Group has been publishing the Marine & Océans magazine since 2016. [6]
In 2019, Valmonde revived the monthly magazine Le Spectacle du Monde with essays by Joseph Nye, Robert Kagan and Michel Houellebecq in the first issue. [7]
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