Élisabeth Lévy
Élisabeth Lévy | |
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 Élisabeth Lévy on RTL in 2019 | |
| Born | 16 February 1964 Marseille, France |
| Education | Sciences Po |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist polemist |
Élisabeth Lévy (born 16 February 1964) is a French journalist, polemicist, essayist and editor in chief of Causeur.[1]
Biography
[edit]She was born in Marseille,[2] the daughter of a general practitioner and a pharmacist, both of whom were of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. She grew up in Épinay-sur-Seine and studied at Sciences Po. She worked for the Agence France-Presse (AFP)[3] and for Jeune Afrique.[4] She later joined L’Événement du jeudi, and Marianne[2] and, after being dismissed by Jean-François Kahn in 1998,[3] began writing for Le Figaro.[5] In 2005, Le Premier Pouvoir, a programme she presented on France Culture devoted to media analysis, was cancelled. Guests had included Jean Baudrillard, and Peter Sloterdijk.[6] In 2007 she co-founded Causeur,[7] a magazine whose annual losses are offset by support from far-right stakeholders like Gérald Penciolelli.[3][8]
Controversies
[edit]Climate change denial
[edit]During a heated discussion with Claire Nouvain on CNews, where Lévy is a regular guest, she vaunted her skepticism as a healthy scientific posture concerning the role of humanity in global warming.[9]
Proximity to Great Replacement theorists
[edit]In 2017, she interviewed Alain Finkielkraut, concerning Renaud Camus's Great Replacement theory and in 2021 published a two-part interview with Camus himself.[10][11]
In September 2021, the cover of Causeur showing a picture of five Black or mixed-ancestry babies captioned "Smile, you're great-replaced" was a reference to this conspiracy theory. The cover sparked a wave of indignation, inspiring condemnation from the MRAP and many politicians, including former interior minister Christophe Castaner.[12]
Élisabeth Moreno, the Minister for Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities, called it "unabashed racism" and announced that the government had alerted the Paris prosecutor's office.[13]
Prostitution
[edit]In October 2013, Causeur published a petition in favor of prostitution called the "Manifesto of the 343 bastards" to fight against a bill aiming to penalize clients of prostitution. She defended the title as a humorous way of treating a serious issue (it was a play on a Charlie Hebdo political cartoon about the 1971 Manifesto of the 343).[14][3]
Kosovo war
[edit]In 2000, she contested the number of casualties by Serbians during the Kosovo War.[15][3]
Books
[edit]All in French.
- Malek Boutih (coauthor), La France aux Français ? Chiche ! : un entretien mené par Élisabeth Lévy / Malek Boutih, Paris, Fondation du 2-Mars et Éditions Mille et une nuits, coll. « Essai », 2001, 97 p. (ISBN 2-84205-564-0)
- Les maîtres censeurs : pour en finir avec la pensée unique, Paris, Librairie générale française, coll. « Le livre de poche » (no 15282), 2002, 408 p. (ISBN 2-253-15282-X) – Prix François-Victor-Noury de l’Institut de France.
- Lucien Israël (author) (pref. Alain Besançon), Les dangers de l’euthanasie : entretiens avec Élisabeth Lévy / Lucien Israël, Paris, Éd. des Syrtes, 2002, 153 p. (ISBN 2-84545-051-6)
- Philippe Muray (coauthor), Festivus festivus : conversations avec Élisabeth Lévy / Philippe Muray, Paris, Fayard, 2005, 485 p. (ISBN 2-213-62129-2)
- Alain Finkielkraut (coauthor) and Rony Brauman (coauthor), La discorde : Israël-Palestine, les Juifs, la France : conversations avec Élisabeth Lévy / Rony Brauman, Alain Finkielkraut, Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2006, 375 p. (ISBN 2-84205-812-7)
- Le premier pouvoir : inventaire après liquidation, Paris, Climats, 2007, 164 p. (ISBN 978-2-08-120068-5)
- Notre métier a mal tourné : deux journalistes s’énervent, Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2008, 232 p. (ISBN 978-2-7555-0041-7)
- Robert Ménard (coauthor), Les Français sont-ils antisémites ?, Paris, Éditions Mordicus, 2009, 103 p. (ISBN 978-2-918414-16-2)
- La gauche contre le réel, Paris, Fayard, 2012, 319 p. (ISBN 978-2-7555-0041-7)
- Les rien-pensants, éditions du Cerf, 2017
In popular culture
[edit]- Il n'y a personne dans les tombes, by François Taillandier, Stock, 2007
- Une belle époque, by Christian Authier, Stock, 2008: as Isabelle Laval[3]
- Ticket d'entrée, by Joseph Macé-Scaron, Grasset, 2011 : as Sarah Berg[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Lévy, Élisabeth. "A propos de Causeur". Causeur. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ a b Daumas, Cécile. "Élisabeth Lévy, sniper de rien". Libération (in French).
- ^ a b c d e f g Chemin, Ariane (12 December 2013). "Elisabeth Lévy, causeuse de troubles". Le Monde.fr (in French).
- ^ Sébastien Fontenelle, Mona Chollet, Olivier Cyran et Laurence de Cock, Les éditocrates 2 : Le cauchemar continue..., La Découverte, 5 avril 2018, 148 p. (ISBN 978-2-348-03552-4)
- ^ "Elisabeth Lévy – La biographie de Elisabeth Lévy avec Gala.fr". Gala.fr.
- ^ "Elisabeth Lévy remerciée de France-Culture". L'Obs (in French). 8 July 2006.
- ^ "Ouverture du site causeur.fr". Paris-Communiqués. 19 November 2007.
- ^ René Monzat [in French] (21 December 2010). "Qui soutient la presse d'extrême droite?". Contretemps: Revue de critique communiste (in French).
- ^ "Face aux " climatosceptiques " de la télé, l'écologiste Claire Nouvian en appelle au CSA". Le Monde.fr. May 10, 2019 – via Le Monde.
- ^ Lévy, Elisabeth; Pimentel, Martin; Camus, Renaud (22 January 2021). "Renaud Camus: 'La liberté d'expression dans la France de 2020 n'est pas menacée: elle n'existe pas'" (in French).
- ^ Dejean, Mathieu (30 October 2017). "Alain Finkielkraut reprend à son compte la théorie du "grand remplacement" de Renaud Camus" (in French).
- ^ Aveline, Paul (20 September 2021). "Causeur déborde Valeurs actuelles sur sa droite". Arrêt sur images (in French).
- ^ Florian Guadalupe (17 September 2021). "La ministre Elisabeth Moreno dénonce la Une "abjecte" de "Causeur" sur le "Grand remplacement"" (in French).
- ^ Alexandre, Boudet (30 October 2013). "Polémique après un "manifeste des 343 salauds" pour la prostitution". Huffington Post (in French) – via AFP.
- ^ Lévy, Élisabeth (2000). "Kosovo : l'Insoutenable légèreté de l'information". Le Débat (in French). 109 (2): 4. doi:10.3917/deba.109.0004.
