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Éric Zemmour

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Also known as Eric Zemmour, Éric Justin Léon Zemmour

French politician and writer

Person · Open Library

Born
31 August 1958
Works
11

Top works

  • Mélancolie française
  • Balladur
  • Chirac l'homme qui ne s'aimait pas
  • Mélancolie française
  • Le livre noir de la droite

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Film & TV

Acting · Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France

Éric Justin Léon Zemmour (born 31 August 1958) is a French essayist, political journalist and writer. His flamboyant conservative positions, as well as the numerous controversies he has been involved in, are notorious in his homeland. With the publication of The French Suicide (French: Le Suicide français), a book for which he was awarded the 2015 Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand, he gained…

Known for

  • White Power: Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Législatives 2024 : chronique d'une folle campagne2024
  • Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Au tableau - Présidentielles 2022 — Self2022
  • Quelle époque ! — Self - Guest2022
  • ADN — Self - Guest2022
  • We're Live — Self - Guest2020
  • Face the Classroom — Self - Guest2017
  • Zemmour et Naulleau — Éric Zemmour2011
  • Salut les Terriens ! — Self - Guest2006

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
232
Total plays
971

Tags

racismraciststupid liberal pretending to be a conservativenational socialismwarmonger

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Quotes

  • To call your child Mohammed is to colonize France.
  • I am aware of the enthusiasm that my potential Presidential candidacy can evoke. That enthusiasm exists because the French people do not want to die. It is there because there is hope.

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Key facts

Preceded by
Office established
Born
Éric Justin Léon Zemmour , ( 1958-08-31 ) 31 August 1958 (age 67) , Montreuil , France
Party
Reconquête (since 2021)
Spouse
Mylène Chichportich ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1982 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 2021 ) ​
Domestic partner
Sarah Knafo (2021–present)
Alma mater
Sciences Po
Occupation
Politician essayist political journalist
Awards
Prix Richelieu , Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand
Website
YouTube channel
Nickname
Le Z
Subject
Political history , cultural evolution , opposition to immigration
Notable works
L'homme qui ne s'aimait pas , Le premier sexe , Mélancolie française , Le Suicide français , Destin français , La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot

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Encyclopedic overview

Éric Justin Léon Zemmour ( French: [erik zɛmur] ; born 31 August 1958) is a French far-right politician, essayist, writer and political journalist and pundit. He was an editor and panelist on Face à l'Info, a daily show broadcast on CNews, from 2019 to 2021. He ran in the 2022 French presidential election, in which he placed fourth in the first round.

Born in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil, Zemmour studied at Sciences Po. He worked as a reporter for Le Quotidien de Paris from 1986 to 1996. He then joined Le Figaro, where he worked until 2021. Zemmour also became known as a television personality, appearing as a pundit or co-host on shows such as On n'est pas couché on France 2 (2006–2011) and Ça se dispute on I-Télé (2003–2014), as well as Zemmour et Naulleau (2011–2021), a weekly evening talk show on Paris Première, together with literary critic Éric Naulleau. Zemmour also worked for RTL from 2010 until 2019, first hosting the daily radio show, Z comme Zemmour, prior to joining Yves Calvi's morning news show as an analyst. His book The French Suicide (Le Suicide français) sold more than 500,000 copies in 2014.

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