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Éric Zemmour
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French politician and writer
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Éric Zemmour is a French writer, journalist, columnist, and pundit born in Montreuil on 31 August 1958. He holds French citizenship and speaks French and Hebrew. His professional career includes work with RTL, Le Figaro, and CNews. He is educated at Sciences Po and identifies with Judaism, having the religious name Moïse.
Zemmour’s notable works include The French Suicide, Mélancolie française, Balladur, Chirac l'homme qui ne s'aimait pas, Le livre noir de la droite, and Le coup d'état des juges. He received the Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand award. He is a member of the Reconquête political party and holds political ideologies including conservatism, French nationalism, opposition to immigration, and protectionism. He has been convicted of incitement of the people and insult.
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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
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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Montreuil
- Position held
- president
- Employer
- Le Figaro
- Political party
- Reconquête
- Languages spoken
- Hebrew
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- Judaism
- Notable work
- The French Suicide
- Field of work
- literature
- Sport
- association football
- Official website
- www.ericzemmour.fr
- Image
- Portrait d'Éric Zemmour, avril 2022.jpg
- Height
- 1.73
- Convicted of
- incitement of the people
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- date of birth
- 1958-08-31
- Commons category
- Éric Zemmour
- name in native language
- Éric Zemmour
- social media followers
- 488000
- birth name
- Éric Justin Léon Zemmour
- unmarried partner
- Sarah Knafo
- religious name
- moïse
- political alignment
- far-right politics
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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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