Claude Julien (journalist)
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Claude Julien (May 17, 1925, Saint-Rome-de-Cernon (Aveyron, France) — May 5, 2005) was a French journalist, editor of French newspaper of record Le Monde in 1969 and editor-in-chief then director of Le Monde diplomatique.
Taking part in the Resistance during World War II, he participated at the Liberation to a newspaper titled Debout (Stand-up). After studies of political science in the University of Notre Dame in Indiana (USA), he became one of the French journalist specialist of the USA.
In France, he became journalist at the Vie catholique illustrée (1949-51), then editor-in-chief of la Dépêche marocaine de Tanger. He joined the foreign service of Le Monde in 1951, and directed it starting in 1969. He then becomes editor-in-chief ot Le Monde diplomatique in 1973. Elected to the succession of Jacques Fauvet as director of Le Monde in 1981, he was forced to resign (on political splits in the newspaper) some months afterward and returned to Le Monde diplomatique.
[edit] 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)
