Valeurs actuelles

Valeurs actuelles is a French right-wing weekly news magazine published in Paris.[1][2] It was founded by Raymond Bourgine in 1966.

Valeurs actuelles
EditorGeoffroy Lejeune
CategoriesNewsmagazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation116,126 (2015)
FounderRaymond Bourgine
Year founded1966 (1966)
CompanyValmonde
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench
Websitewww.valeursactuelles.com
ISSN0049-5794

History

Valeurs actuelles was founded in 1966[3] by Raymond Bourgine as an offspring of the weekly Finances, a stock market information review. The magazine gradually became an opinion and generalist publication with a liberal-conservative tendency. In 1971 Valeurs actuelles was relaunched.[4] The magazine is published on a weekly basis.[3][5]

Formerly owned by Socpresse the magazine has been owned by Valmonde,[6] a subsidiary of Sud Communication.[5] The company is owned by Pierre Fabre,[5] who founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre.[7]

The main articles of the magazine are the editorial, written by François d'Orcival; the lettre de M. de Rastignac ("Rastignac's letter"), a humour piece about French politics that comments on present politicians by calling them by names of supporting characters from Balzac's works. The magazine has a far-right-wing stance.[8]

From 1966 to his death in 1972, the movie section was written by the antisemitic and collaborationist writer Lucien Rebatet, under the pseudonym of François Vinneuil.[9]

In 2019, French president Emmanuel Macron talked about Islam, the veil and immigration with the publication.[10] In August 2020, Valeurs actuelles published an illustration of the black Member of Parliament Danièle Obono as a slave in chains, prompting an outcry from politicians of all parties. Deputy editor Tagdual Denis apologized for the image and denied accusations of racism.[11]

Circulation

Valeurs actuelles is mostly distributed to subscribers. Its circulation in 1981 was 113,000 copies.[12] The estimated circulation of the magazine was 90,000 copies in 1988.[13] The magazine sold 116,126 copies in France in 2015.[14]

Contributors

Major contributors to the magazine include the following:[15]

References
  1. Alistair Cole (26 March 2019). Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France. Manchester University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-5261-4050-0.
  2. "Valeurs Actuelles (Groupe Valmonde)". 118 128 (in French). Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  3. Western Europe 2003. Psychology Press. 30 November 2002. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  4. Serge Berstein; Jean-Pierre Rioux (13 March 2000). The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974. Cambridge University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-521-58061-8. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  5. "France -- Media Guide 2008" (PDF). Open Source Society. 16 July 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  6. "Le groupe Valmonde relance le magazine Le Spectacle du Monde". Offre Media (in French). 30 January 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  7. Xavier Ternisien, Une filière "Valeurs actuelles" à la tête du "Figaro", Le Monde, 19 July 2012
  8. Thomas Sheehan (24 January 1980). "Paris: Moses and Polytheism". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  9. Pascal Ifri, Les Deux Étendards de Lucien Rebatet: dossier d'un chef-d'œuvre maudit, p. 27, Éditions l'Âge d'Homme, 2001
  10. "Fury over Macron's far-right magazine interview". France 24. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  11. Associated Press (29 August 2020). "French magazine says sorry for portraying black MP as a slave". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  12. Raymond Kuhn (7 April 2006). The Media in France. Routledge. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-134-98053-6. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  13. Peter Humphreys (15 May 1996). Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe. Manchester University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7190-3197-7. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  14. "Accueil > Chiffres > Valeurs actuelles". ACPM. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  15. Présentation de la rédaction Archived 29 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  16. Michel Gurfinkiel biography
  17. "International Affairs". Interview with John Rees. Hosted by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN (Washington, D.C.). June 29, 1984 at 9:00am EDT.
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