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Catherine Nay

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Catherine Nay
Nay in 2019
Born (1943-01-01) 1 January 1943 (age 81)
OccupationJournalist
Spouse
(m. 2016; died 2020)

Catherine Nay (born 1 January 1943) is a French journalist and political commentator.

Biography

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After she attended primary and secondary schools in Périgueux, Nay started studying law but dropped in license year to become a journalist. In 1968, at the age of 25, she was hired by the political service of the newspaper L'Express led by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, where she covered right-wing politics.[1] From 1975, Nay made a major part of her career at radio station Europe 1.[2]

In 2005, she became an advisor to Europe 1's chairman Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. In 2008–9, she appeared several times in Le Grand Journal (Canal+) as a political commentator along with Alain Duhamel, Philippe Val and Jean-Michel Aphatie [fr].

Since 2007, Nay has appeared regularly in Les grandes voix d'Europe 1 on Saturdays. Since 2011, she has been a cast member of Il n'y en a pas deux comme Elle hosted by Marion Ruggieri [fr] on Europe 1.[3] In April 2012, she was a jury member of Qui veut devenir président ? [fr] broadcast by France 4.[4]

Upon the commemoration of the May 1958 and May 1968 events, Nay's first documentary film was broadcast by France 3 in prime time at the end of May 2018.

For a long time Nay lived with politician and Elf Aquitaine's former leader Albin Chalandon,[5] whom she had met at the political convention of the UNR party.[6] Chalandon married Nay in 2016, after the death of his wife Salomé from whom he had not divorced.

Nay was made an Officier of the National Order of Merit.[7]

Published works

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  • La Double Méprise (in French). Paris: Grasset. 1980. ISBN 978-2-246-25241-2.
  • Le Noir et le Rouge, ou l'Histoire d'une ambition (in French). Paris: Grasset. 1984. ISBN 978-2-246-28191-7.
  • Les Sept Mitterrand, ou les Métamorphoses d'un septennat (in French). Paris: Grasset. 1987. ISBN 978-2-246-36291-3.
  • Le Dauphin et le Régent (in French). Paris: Grasset. 1994. ISBN 978-2-246-47171-4.
  • Un pouvoir nommé désir (in French). Paris: Grasset. 2007. ISBN 978-2-246-68001-7.
  • L'Impétueux : Tourments, tourmentes, crises et tempêtes (in French). Paris: Grasset. 2012. ISBN 978-2-246-79010-5.
  • Souvenirs, souvenirs… Tome 1 (in French). Paris: Robert Laffont. 2019. ISBN 978-2-221-19074-6.
  • Tu le sais bien, le temps passe. Souvenirs, souvenirs… Tome 2 (in French). Paris: Bouquins. 2021. ISBN 978-2-382-92104-3.

References

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  1. ^ David Buxton; Francis James, eds. (2009). Vulgarisateurs, essayistes, animateurs : Interventions et engagements médiatiques en France depuis les années 1980 (in French). L'Harmattan. pp. 44–45.
  2. ^ "Catherine Nay". Libération.fr (in French). 10 January 1995. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Il n'y en a pas deux comme ELle" (in French). Europe 1.
  4. ^ Kevin Boucher (3 April 2012). ""Qui veut devenir président ?" sur France 4, à la recherche des futurs talents de la politique". PureMédias (in French).
  5. ^ Sophie Coignard [in French]; Alexandre Wickham (1999). L'Omertà française (in French). p. 54.
  6. ^ Christophe Deloire; Christophe Dubois [in French] (2006). Sexus Politicus [fr] (in French). Albin Michel. p. 37. ISBN 2226172556.
  7. ^ "Décret du 14 novembre 2006 portant promotion et nomination". JORF (in French). 15 November 2006. p. 17122.