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Hervé Bourges, great figure of the media and the Francophonie, died at 86


Hervé Bourges in Paris in 2015. – Villard / SIPA

Both public and private television channels are in mourning. Hervé Bourges, a great figure in the French audiovisual sector and a fervent defender of the French-speaking world, died on Sunday at the age of 86. He died in a Paris hospital, surrounded by his wife and relatives, said Olivier Zegna-Rata, who was his chief of staff at Superior council of audio-visual (CSA).

Ambassador of France to Unesco

Journalist, successive boss of television channels TF1, France 2 and France 3, and radio (RFI), Hervé Bourges had been at the head of the CSA from 1995 to 2001. In addition to his eminent roles in the media, Hervé Bourges was also an anti-colonialist militant during the Algerian war, a lover of Africa and a fervent defender of the Francophonie.

Born May 2, 1933 in Rennes in Ille-et-Vilaine, he graduated from the Lille School of Journalism (ESJ) in 1955. His life was then a long journey between media, politics and even diplomacy, a time ambassador from France to theUnesco. He had signed in 2012 a last documentary “Algeria in the test of power”, with the director Jérôme Sesquin.

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