Stéphane Bern

Stéphane Bern
Stéphane Bern in 2012
Born	(1963-11-14) 14 November 1963 Lyon, France
Nationality	French, Luxembourgish
Occupation(s)	Journalist, radio and television host

Stéphane Bern, OBE (born 14 November 1963) is a journalist, radio host, and French TV presenter. He is known as a specialist in nobility and royalty.

He was inducted into the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres {Order of Arts and Letters} (France), the Order of Grimaldi (Monaco) and the Order of the British Empire (United Kingdom) [see "Honours" below].

Personal life

Stéphane Bern went to high school at Lycée Carnot in Paris. He graduated from the École de management de Lyon in 1985. His mother was from Luxembourg. He came out in the magazine Têtu in October, 2009 and in the documentary "Vie privée, vie publique" (by Mireille Dumas), which aired on France 3 on 6 November 2009.

Journalistic career

Newspapers

Bern was editor of the magazine Dynasty from 1985 to 1987 and then worked as a journalist for Jours de France in 1988. Since 1999 he has been the deputy editor (Events section) of the magazine Le Figaro Madame.

Radio

Bern chronicled the royal families on Europe 1 from 1992 to 1997 before joining Radio Télévision Luxembourg and participating in the show Les Grosses Têtes. Since 2000, he has produced and hosted the show Le Fou du roi on France Inter, which is the most listened to show in France in this time slot.

Television

• 1998 to 2003: Sagas (TF1)
• 2003 to 2006: 20 h 10 pétantes, which became Friday pétantes and Saturday pétantes (Canal+)
• 2006 to 2007: L'Arène de France (France 2)
• 2007: Pourquoi les manchots n'ont-ils pas froid aux pieds? ("Why don't penguins get cold feet?") (France 2)
• 2007: Secrets d'histoire (France 2)
• 2010: A program in honor of Philippe Bouvard, in January 2010 on the occasion of his fifty years of television (France 2)
• 2010: Comment ça va bien! (France 2)
• 2015–2016: Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and 2016 as commentator of France in the final with Marianne James (France 2)

Public service

He was a member of the Nouvelle Action Royaliste political movement for 18 years, but left in 1999. He was alderman of the 9th arrondissement of Paris from 1999 to 2001, then President of the Conservatory of Music of that area.

A member since its inception in January 2001 of the Academy Grevin, he inaugurated the Grevin Wax Museum on 10 March 2008. Bern is also a member of the Cercle de l'Union interalliée and the Institute of the Royal House of France, and a sponsor of the Youth Club of the institute.

Works

• Grace Kelly (2007), co-edited by Albin Michel – Nostalgie, Paris, 2007, 139 p. ISBN 978-2-226-15220-6
• Oubliez-moi, (2009) ed. Flammarion, Paris ISBN 978-2081208506
• Une vie de chien. Les animaux chéris des grands de ce monde, (2009) ed. Albin Michel, Paris ISBN 978-2226192950
• 'Au coeur de l'Écosse, (2009) ed. Flammarion, Paris, in collaboration with Franck Ferrand, William de Laubier, and Angelika Cawdor. ISBN 978-2-08-122670-8
• Le livre fou… du roi, (2010) ed. Flammarion, Paris ISBN 978-2081233430
• Secrets d'histoire, (2010) ed. Albin Michel, Paris
• Dictionnaire amoureux des royautés, (2010) ed. Plon, Paris ISBN 978-2259206099

Filmography

• 2003: Laisse tes mains sur mes hanches directed by Chantal Lauby
• 2006: Les aristos directed by Charlotte de Turckheim
• 2015: Connasse, Princesse des cœurs directed by Eloïse Lang and Noémie Saglio

Honours

National honours

• France: Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) in January 2010

Foreign honours

• Monaco: Knight of the Order of Grimaldi in November 2011.
• Luxembourg: Commander with crown of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau in January 2013.
• Belgium: Officer of the Order of Leopold in March 2013.
• United Kingdom: Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in June 2014.

External links

• Gotha, the official website of Stéphane Bern
• StéphaneBern.com