Serge July

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Serge July
Serge July by Claude Truong-Ngoc, 2014
Born (1942-12-27) 27 December 1942 (age 81)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Journalist
Editor
Writer
Director
Script writer
Known forFounder of Libération

Serge July (born 27 December 1942) is a French journalist, editor, founder of the daily Libération, and a prominent figure in French politics from the 1970s through the 1990s. He is the author of several books and has directed more than fifty documentaries about cinema and politics.[1] In recent times, he has been active in French organizations working in support of journalists taken hostage in Syria.[2]

Critics[edit]

In 1978, he published an article criticizing the television series Holocaust, invited Pierre Guillaume, negationist founder of the bookstore, La Vieille Taupe and supports the freedom of speech of Robert Faurisson.[3] On July 4, 1983, he was condemned by the 17th chamber of the Paris judicial tribunal, following the complaint of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), of having published in a "Courrier readers" of July 31, 1982, an anti-Semitic letter, accused of defamation, incitement to hatred and racial violence.[4]

Works[edit]

  • (with Alain Geismar) Vers la guerre civile, 1969
  • Les années Mitterrand : histoire baroque d'une normalisation inachevée, 1986
  • Le salon des artistes, 1989
  • Dictionnaire amoureux de New York, 2019[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Serge July A Love Letter to NYC". French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  2. ^ "France's leftwing mouthpiece plunged into existential crisis as editor told to leave". TheGuardian.com. 14 June 2006.
  3. ^ "Négationnistes : Quand tombent les masques… (1/2)". 26 February 2013.
  4. ^ "M. Serge July est condamné pour provocation à la violence raciale". Le Monde.fr. 6 July 1983.

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