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Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Franz-Olivier Giesbert (born January 18, 1949, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American-born French journalist, author, and television presenter. Giesbert worked for Le Figaro fro…
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Franz-Olivier Giesbert (born January 18, 1949, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American-born French journalist, author, and television presenter. Giesbert worked for Le Figaro from 1988 to 2000 and for Le Point starting in 2000. In 2013, he wrote the scenario of a documentary about his relationship with the former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, secrets d’une présidence. ("Nicholas Sarkozy, secrets of a presidency"). Giesbert hosts the cable television, weekly, literary show Le Gai Savoir on Paris Première. In 1999, the show won the Richelieu price of the Association for the Defense of French Language. Since October 2011, he hosts Les Grandes Questions on France 5. And starting in 2012, he also hosts on France 3 the monthly show Le Monde d'après ("The world after"). In 2007, he wrote the biography of Marseille's mobster Jacky le Mat, l'Immortel, adapted by Richard Berry. In 2018, he is attacked by Asia Argento and Marlène Schiappa, for explaining actresses presented as crucified and raped by Harvey Weinstein had to know what happened than, analyzed as Gaslighting, Slut shaming and Victim blaming. In 2021, the pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff, describes him as an unwavering support. He was criticized byt Laure Adler for regretting that people didn't speak french, at the train station of Marseille. Source: Article "Franz-Olivier Giesbert" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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2026
Brigitte Bardot - Le combat en héritage
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- 2025
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2024
« Je ne suis pas chinetoque » : Histoire du racisme anti-asiatique
Movie Himself : ex Director of Publication of newspaper Le Point / Author / Editorialist / Journalist / Writer
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2023
214, rue de Rivoli : Le dîner spécial 20 ans
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2022
Le Figaro La Nuit
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2022
Quelle époque !
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2021
Mitterrand, président culturel
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2017
Élysée, la solitude du pouvoir
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2016
Opération Elysée
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2016
Juppé, le ressuscité
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2016
Quotidien
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2015
Folie passagère
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2014
Ministre ou rien
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2014
Lanester
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2012
The Unexpected Getaway
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2012
The New Watchdogs
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2012
28 minutes
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2011
Histoire Immédiate
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- 2011
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2010
François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie
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2010
22 Bullets
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2009
C à vous
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2006
Salut les Terriens !
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2006
On n'est pas couché
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2001
Who Is Bernard Tapie?
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1999
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
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1998
Vivement dimanche
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1975
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