| Catherine Nay | |
|---|---|
 Nay in 2019 | |
| Born | (1943-01-01) 1 January 1943 (age 81) Tours, France |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse |
Albin Chalandon
(m. 2016; died 2020) |
Catherine Nay (born 1 January 1943) is a French journalist and political commentator.
Biography
After she attended primary and secondary schools in Périgueux, Nay started studying law but dropped in license year to become a journalist. In 1968, at the age of 25, she was hired by the political service of the newspaper L'Express led by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, where she covered right-wing politics. From 1975, Nay made a major part of her career at radio station Europe 1.
In 2005, she became an advisor to Europe 1's chairman Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. In 2008–9, she appeared several times in Le Grand Journal (Canal+) as a political commentator along with Alain Duhamel, Philippe Val and Jean-Michel Aphatie [fr].
Since 2007, Nay has appeared regularly in Les grandes voix d'Europe 1 on Saturdays. Since 2011, she has been a cast member of Il n'y en a pas deux comme Elle hosted by Marion Ruggieri [fr] on Europe 1. In April 2012, she was a jury member of Qui veut devenir président ? [fr] broadcast by France 4.
Upon the commemoration of the May 1958 and May 1968 events, Nay's first documentary film was broadcast by France 3 in prime time at the end of May 2018.
For a long time Nay lived with politician and Elf Aquitaine's former leader Albin Chalandon, whom she had met at the political convention of the UNR party. Chalandon married Nay in 2016, after the death of his wife Salomé from whom he had not divorced.
Nay was made an Officier of the National Order of Merit.
Published works
- La Double Méprise (in French). Paris: Grasset. 1980. ISBN 978-2-246-25241-2.
- Le Noir et le Rouge, ou l'Histoire d'une ambition (in French). Paris: Grasset. 1984. ISBN 978-2-246-28191-7.
- Les Sept Mitterrand, ou les Métamorphoses d'un septennat (in French). Paris: Grasset. 1987. ISBN 978-2-246-36291-3.
- Le Dauphin et le Régent (in French). Paris: Grasset. 1994. ISBN 978-2-246-47171-4.
- Un pouvoir nommé désir (in French). Paris: Grasset. 2007. ISBN 978-2-246-68001-7.
- L'Impétueux : Tourments, tourmentes, crises et tempêtes (in French). Paris: Grasset. 2012. ISBN 978-2-246-79010-5.
- Souvenirs, souvenirs… Tome 1 (in French). Paris: Robert Laffont. 2019. ISBN 978-2-221-19074-6.
- Tu le sais bien, le temps passe. Souvenirs, souvenirs… Tome 2 (in French). Paris: Bouquins. 2021. ISBN 978-2-382-92104-3.
References
- David Buxton; Francis James, eds. (2009). Vulgarisateurs, essayistes, animateurs : Interventions et engagements médiatiques en France depuis les années 1980 (in French). L'Harmattan. pp. 44–45.
- "Catherine Nay". Libération.fr (in French). 10 January 1995. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- "Il n'y en a pas deux comme ELle" (in French). Europe 1.
- Kevin Boucher (3 April 2012). ""Qui veut devenir président ?" sur France 4, à la recherche des futurs talents de la politique". PureMédias (in French).
- Sophie Coignard ; Alexandre Wickham (1999). L'Omertà française (in French). p. 54.
- Christophe Deloire; Christophe Dubois (2006). Sexus Politicus [fr] (in French). Albin Michel. p. 37. ISBN 2226172556.
- "Décret du 14 novembre 2006 portant promotion et nomination". JORF (in French). 15 November 2006. p. 17122.
- 1943 births
- Living people
- 20th-century French journalists
- 21st-century French journalists
- French radio journalists
- French women radio journalists
- French political commentators
- French political journalists
- French columnists
- French women columnists
- French opinion journalists
- Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Mass media people from Tours, France
- 20th-century French women writers
- 21st-century French women writers
- 20th-century French women journalists
- 21st-century French women journalists