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Stéphane Bern

French-Luxembourgish journalist, radio host and television presenter (born 1963)

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Stéphane Bern (French pronunciation: [stefan bɛʁn]; born 14 November 1963) is a French-Luxembourgish journalist, radio host and television presenter. He is known as a specialist in heritage, nobility and royalty. He has been awarded honours by several nations, including the Legion of Honour (France), the Order of Grimaldi (Monaco), and the Order of the British Empire (United Kingdom).

01Education and personal life

Bern went to high school at the Lycée Carnot in Paris, and graduated from the École de management de Lyon in 1985. His parents, Melita Schlanger and Louis Bern, were born to Polish parents from Jewish families who had emigrated to Switzerland and France before World War II.

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.

02Career

Magazines

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 various 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 during this time slot. He hosts Historiquement Vôtre with Mathieu Noël on Europe 1 since September 2020.

Television

Selected list

03Public 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 that institute.

He was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron to raise funds for the national heritage.

04Opinions

Bern criticised the demolition of the historic Saint-Joseph Chapel of Saint-Paul College in Lille.

05Works

  • 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

06Filmography

07Honours

National honours

Foreign honours

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