Eugénie Bastié

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Eugénie Bastié
Bastié in 2017
Born
Eugénie Bastié

(1991-11-18) 18 November 1991 (age 32)
Toulouse, France
Education
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
Employers

Eugénie Bastié (born 18 November 1991) is a French journalist and essayist. Bastié is a

political commentator on television news channel CNews and a contributor to the conservative Le Figaro
newspaper. She is the author of three books and numerous essays.

Early life and education

Eugénie Bastié was born in Toulouse on 18 November 1991.[1] She is one of four children raised in a Catholic household,[2] where her father worked as a landscaper and her mother specialised in nuclear medicine. She grew up in the village of Pibrac, near Toulouse.[3]

Bastié was educated at the private, boarding school Saint Jean de Lectoure[4] then attended the Paris Institute of Political Studies, graduating in 2014 with a Master in Public Affairs (MPA). She went on to earn a master's degree in Philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne University.[5]

Career

While still a student at Sciences Po, Bastié began contributing to the French magazine Causeur, with her first article published in December 2012.[6] In 2013 she completed a 6 months internship at Figaro-Vox, the opinion and debate platform of Le Figaro newspaper where she was subsequently hired.[7] In 2015, she co-launched Limite, a magazine dedicated to Integral Ecology, a central theme of Catholic Social Teaching.[4]

In September 2015, Bastié made a notable appearance on the television program Ce soir (ou jamais!) where she engaged in a spirited debate against Jacques Attali, delving into the topic of refugees and immigration.[8][7] In April 2016 she published her first essay Adieu, Mademoiselle (Goodbye, Mademoiselle: The defeat of women).[4] In September 2016 she briefly joined the program AcTualiTy, on the French public TV channel France 2. During this time, she also contribute to Patrick Buisson's program Historiquement show on the TV channel Histoire and to 24h Pujadas on La Chaîne Info.[7]

In April 2017 Bastié became a columnist on Le Figaro débats et opinions page. In October 2018 she published her second essay Le Porc émissaire : Terreur ou contre-révolution (The Scapepig: Terror or counterrevolution). While promoting the book on a France Inter radio program, she expressed her criticism of what she saw as "excessive victimisation" stemming from the MeToo movement.[9] In 2019 she left Limite, the magazine that she co-founded.[10]

During the 2019–20 season Bastié contributed to the program et en même temps on BFMTV as columnist, she also contributed to the program 19 h Ruth Elkrief, debating current affairs opposing Alain Duhamel.[11] In July 2020 she left the network to become a political commentator on television news channel CNews; In May 2021 Bastié hosted her own show entitled Place aux idées. In September 2021 she joined Face à l'info with two other commentators in replacement of Eric Zemmour.[12] In 2022 she launched a new program on Figaro TV titled Le Club des idées, and started a new program Revue des hebdos et des idées on the radio station Europe 1.[13] In 2023 Bastié published a new essay called La dictature des ressentis (The dictatorship of feelings),[14] and Sauver la différence des sexes (Save the difference between the sexes).[1]

Publications

  • La dictature des ressentis. Tribune libre (in French). Place des éditeurs. 2023.
    ISBN 978-2-259-31760-3
    .
  • Sauver la différence des sexes. Tracts (Paris. 2019) (in French). Gallimard. 2023.
    ISBN 978-2-07-302545-6
    .
  • La Guerre des idées - Enquête au coeur de l'intelligentsia française. Arion (in French). Groupe Robert Laffont. 2022.
    ISBN 978-2-221-26261-0
    .
  • Le porc émissaire: Terreur ou contre-révolution (in French). Editions du Cerf. 2018.
    ISBN 978-2-204-12880-3
    .
  • Adieu mademoiselle (in French). Editions du Cerf. 2016.
    ISBN 978-2-204-11124-9
    .

Credited as contributor

References

  1. ^ a b "Eugénie Bastié Journaliste et essayiste". radiofrance.
  2. ^ Audrey Kucinskas « Qui est Eugénie Bastié, la chroniqueuse déjà comparée à Éric Zemmour ? », L'Express, 3 septembre 2016.
  3. Libération
    , 18 mai 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Valery, Fabrice (7 December 2018). "De Toulouse à l'anti #MeToo, itinéraire d'Eugénie Bastié, essayiste conservatrice et "féministe sceptique"". France 3 Occitanie (in French).
  5. ^ "Journaliste au service Débats et opinions au quotidien "Le Figaro"". LesBiographies.com (in French).
  6. ^ "« Je suis "bankable" » : Eugénie Bastié consacre elle-même sa consécration médiatique". Acrimed (in French). 23 November 2016.
  7. ^ a b c "Eugénie Bastié". Ojim.fr (in French). 23 September 2021.
  8. ^ "Ce soir (ou jamais !)". Télérama.fr (in French). 27 October 2023.
  9. ^ Lucie Cayrol (24 September 2018). "Eugénie Bastié provokes a controversy with her comments on #MeToo". HuffPost (in French). Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  10. ^ Laemle, Brice (25 October 2022). "La revue « écolo catho » et conservatrice « Limite » cesse de paraître après sept ans d'existence". Le Monde.fr (in French).
  11. ^ Groussard, Véronique; Laubacher, Paul (27 July 2020). "INFO OBS. La journaliste conservatrice Eugénie Bastié arrive sur CNews". L'Obs (in French).
  12. ^ Dassonville, Aude; Cassini, Sandrine (13 September 2021). "CNews remplace Eric Zemmour par plusieurs éditorialistes ultraconservateurs". Le Monde.fr (in French).
  13. ^ Mayer, Marion (31 August 2022). "Rentrée radio : les nouveautés du côté des matinales". Télérama (in French).
  14. ^ "On peut débattre de tout, mais pas avec n'importe qui !". lejdd.fr (in French). 9 October 2023.
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