Prix Richelieu

The Prix Richelieu is a French literary award that rewards a journalist who "testified by the quality of his own language, his concern to defend the French language". It is awarded annually, under the sponsorship of the association Défense de la langue française [fr] and the Éditions Larousse.

History

This prize was created in 1992 on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the "Cercle de presse Richelieu".

The Cercle de presse Richelieu, created in 1952 by Paul Camus, Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains and Jean Cocteau, aims to preserve and expand the linguistic and cultural heritage and to maintain the quality and evolution of the French language in the modern world. It is always chaired by an academician: Léon Bérard, Maurice Genevoix, Jean Mistler, Jean Dutourd, Angelo Rinaldi and Philippe Beaussant.

Laureates

2024 - Christine Kelly^[1]
2023 - Jean-Michel Djian
2022 - Emmanuel Khérad
2021 - Stéphane Bern
2020 - Étienne de Montety
2019 - Wendy Bouchard
2018 - Bernard de La Villardière
2017 - Bruno Frappat
2016 - Natacha Polony^[2]
2015 - François Busnel
2014 - Guillaume Roquette
2013 - Alain Duault, presenter, moderator.
2012 - Yves Calvi, chronicler at RTL.
2011 - Éric Zemmour, chronicler at Le Figaro Magazine.
2010 - Quentin Dickinson (Radio France) and Jean Quatremer (Libération).
2009 - Olivier Barrot, journalist and TV producer.
2008 - Claude Imbert, columnist at Le Point.
2007 - Frédéric Lodéon, animator and producer at Radio France.
2006 - Annette Gerlach and Florence Dauchez, editors and presenters of the "Journal of Culture" on Arte.
2005 - Michel Theys, chief editor of the "Européenne de Bruxelles".
2004 - Philippe d'Hugues, film critic
2003 - Claire Chazal, editor-in-chief and presenter at TF1.
2002 - Bernard Le Saux, chronicler and literary critic.
2001 - Jean Amadou, chronicler at Europe 1.
2000 - Bruno de Cessole, editor-in-chief of the culture pages of Valeurs actuelles.
1998 - 1999 - Franz-Olivier Giesbert, présenter of the "Gai Savoir" program on Paris Première.
1997 - Jean Lebrun, editor-in-chief of "Culture matin" on France Culture.
1996 - Renaud Matignon, chronicler at Le Figaro littéraire.
1995 - Jean-Claude Narcy, presenter of the news program of 20 o'clock on TF1.
1994 - Philippe Meyer, daily chronicler on France Inter.
1993 - Jean Tulard, Considered one of the best specialists of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Napoleonic era (Directory, Consulate and First French Empire), he is nicknamed by his peers "the master of Napoleonic studies". Jean-Pierre Colignon, chief proofreader on Le Monde and author of the section entitled "La cote des mots".
1992 - William Leymergie, presenter of the program "Télématin" on France 2.

References

^ "L'association Défense de la langue française vient d'attribuer à la journaliste et présentatrice de Face à l'info sur CNews le prix Richelieu".
^ "Natacha Polony lauréate 2016 du Prix Richelieu". www.huffingtonpost.fr. Archived from the original on 2017-02-11.

External links

[L’association_Défense_de_la_langue_française_vient_d'attribuer_à_la_journaliste_et_présentatrice_de_Face_à_l'info_sur_CNews_le_prix_Richelieu-1] "L'association Défense de la langue française vient d'attribuer à la journaliste et présentatrice de Face à l'info sur CNews le prix Richelieu".

[2] "Natacha Polony lauréate 2016 du Prix Richelieu". www.huffingtonpost.fr. Archived from the original on 2017-02-11.

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