Valeurs actuelles

Valeurs actuelles (French pronunciation: [va.lœʁ.zak.tɥɛl]; lit. 'Current Values') is a French weekly news magazine published in Paris. It was initially considered to be right-wing but is today associated with the far right.[2][3][4][5][6][7] It was founded by Raymond Bourgine in 1966.

Valeurs actuelles
Issue #4323 from 3–9 October 2019 showing Emmanuel Macron and the logo of Freemasonry. The headline reads "The true power of the Freemasons" and the subheading is "IVF, euthanasia, Islam: the great works of the 'brothers'. The men and the ambitions of a network at the top of the State".
EditorGeoffroy Lejeune
CategoriesNewsmagazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation108,239 (2020) [1]
FounderRaymond Bourgine
Founded1966 (1966)
CompanyValmonde
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench
Websitewww.valeursactuelles.com
ISSN0049-5794

History

Valeurs actuelles was founded in 1966[8] 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.[9]

Formerly owned by Socpresse the magazine has been owned by Valmonde,[10] a subsidiary of Sud Communication.[11] The company is owned by Pierre Fabre,[11] who founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre.[12]

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.

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.[13]

In 2014, Valeurs actuelles published a false survey favorable to Nicolas Sarkozy.[14] Valeurs actuelles also leaked informations about journalists from the newspaper Le Monde who were investigating on Nicolas Sarkozy, which triggers the accusation of breach of the secrecy of the sources of a dozen French newspapers.[15]

On March 5, 2015, Yves de Kerdrel, publishing director of Valeurs Actuelles, was sentenced by the 17th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court for incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against Roma and defamation for a file devoted to Roma ; a decision confirmed on appeal on December 9, 2015.[16]

In 2019, President Emmanuel Macron gave the magazine an interview and talked critically about Islam, the veil and immigration with the publication. This created much fury from left-wing politicians.[17][18]

Macron defended his interview by saying he wanted to reach out to other audiences as well. He called Valeurs actuelles "a very good magazine, you have to read it to know what the right thinks".[19]

In August 2020, Valeurs actuelles published an illustration of the black Member of Parliament Danièle Obono as a slave in chains as part of a political fiction series on public figures transposed in different historical eras, prompting an outcry from politicians of numerous parties. Deputy editor Tagdual Denis apologised for the image but denied accusations of racism.[20] Valeurs actuelles must be judged for a racist insult in 2021.[21] The magazine was found guilty of making racist comments under French hate speech rules against Danièle Obono, 41, the Member of Parliament for Paris's 17th constituency the far-left France Unbowed party.[22]

In 2021, a few months after the murder of Samuel Paty, Valeurs actuelles publishes a fake news about a professor who would be threatened with death by his students because of the study of the Holocaust.[23]

In 2021, on Algiers putsch birthday,[24] the magazine published an open letter by retired military personnel, who warned the country was heading for "civil war" due to Islamist religious extremism, and hinted at the possibility of a military coup.[25][26][27][28] They are close to the extreme right and conspiratorial circles of the great replacement and the National Rally.[29] For the political scientist specializing in the far right Jean-Yves Camus, an intervention by the army in favor of the far right remains a fantasy fueled by a very small and retired army movement, and not a real threat.[24]

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Valeurs actuelles is mostly distributed to subscribers. Its circulation in 1981 was 113,000 copies.[30] The estimated circulation of the magazine was 90,000 copies in 1988.[31] The magazine sold 116,126 copies in France in 2015,[32] and 108,239 in 2020.[1]

Contributors

Major contributors to the magazine include the following:[33]

References
  1. ACPM Diffusion France payée moyenne, 2020.
  2. "Intrusion au siège de "Valeurs actuelles" après la représentation de Danièle Obono en esclave". LEFIGARO (in French). 29 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  3. "Obono : Valeurs Actuelles fictionne son racisme sans l'assumer - Par Loris Guémart | Arrêt sur images". www.arretsurimages.net. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  4. "Valeurs Actuelles, l'attrape-droites". LExpress.fr (in French). 4 December 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  5. "Refuser la banalisation du racisme". Le Monde.fr (in French). 1 September 2020.
  6. 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.
  7. "Valeurs Actuelles (Groupe Valmonde)". 118 128 (in French). Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  8. Western Europe 2003. Psychology Press. 30 November 2002. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  9. 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.
  10. "Le groupe Valmonde relance le magazine Le Spectacle du Monde". Offre Media (in French). 30 January 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  11. "France -- Media Guide 2008" (PDF). Open Source Society. 16 July 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  12. Xavier Ternisien, Une filière "Valeurs actuelles" à la tête du "Figaro", Le Monde, 19 July 2012
  13. Pascal Ifri, Les Deux Étendards de Lucien Rebatet: dossier d'un chef-d'œuvre maudit, p. 27, Éditions l'Âge d'Homme, 2001
  14. "Valeurs Actuelles / L'Opinion : le sondage Sarkozy était bidon - Par La rédaction | Arrêt sur images". www.arretsurimages.net. 8 September 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  15. "Les rédactions de 14 médias dénoncent les méthodes de "Valeurs actuelles"". Le Point (in French). 17 October 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  16. "«Valeurs actuelles» condamné pour provocation à la haine envers les Roms". Libération (in French). Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  17. "Macron dans "Valeurs actuelles": la gauche s'étouffe". Valeurs actuelles. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  18. "Fury over Macron's far-right magazine interview". France 24. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  19. "Ce qu'Emmanuel Macron dit dans "Valeurs Actuelles"". Huffington Post. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  20. Associated Press (29 August 2020). "French magazine says sorry for portraying black MP as a slave". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  21. "Accusée de " racisme ", la " politique-fiction " de " Valeurs actuelles " sur Danièle Obono en procès à Paris". Le Monde.fr (in French). 24 June 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  22. "French Magazine Found Guilty of Hate Speech Against Black Lawmaker - September 30, 2021". The Daily News Brief | Real News without the Spin. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  23. "Un faux prof piège " Valeurs Actuelles " avec un témoignage sur le séparatisme pour dénoncer les fake news". L'Obs (in French). 31 March 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  24. "Quels liens existe-t-il entre l'armée et l'extrême droite ?". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 27 April 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  25. "Retired generals' warning of impending "civil war" in France sparks political storm", The Telegraph, 26 April 2021.
  26. "Ex-generals face sanctions after they warn of 'civil war' in France", France 24, 28 April 2021.
  27. "French soldiers who warned of 'civil war' to face sanctions", DW, 29 April 2021.
  28. "French soldiers to face military court over letter warning of ‘civil war’", The Guardian, 29 April 2021.
  29. "Tribune de militaires dans "Valeurs Actuelles" : des généraux à la retraite proches de l'extrême-droite et de milieux conspirationnistes". Franceinfo (in French). 26 April 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  30. Raymond Kuhn (7 April 2006). The Media in France. Routledge. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-134-98053-6. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  31. 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.
  32. "Accueil > Chiffres > Valeurs actuelles". ACPM. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  33. Présentation de la rédaction Archived 29 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  34. Michel Gurfinkiel biography
  35. "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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