Françoise Laborde (journalist)

Her father, an English teacher and school inspector, was a teacher in the United States where he published a book on French civilization. Her mother, a Spanish woman, was a member of a Franco-British resistance network in World War II and decorated as such by the Queen of the United Kingdom. She has two older sisters, Geneviève and Catherine Laborde, a weather presenter and writer. The three sisters spent several summers in the United States with their parents between 1960 and 1967 and were partly educated in American schools.

After studying literature at the {{Interlanguage link multi|Lycée Camille-Jullian|fr}} in Bordeaux, Françoise Laborde attended law school at the University of Bordeaux 1, where she obtained a DEA in business and law.

In 1979, she went to Brussels and contributed to the magazine Europolitics. At the same time, she was a correspondent for Radio France Internationale.

From 1982 to 1985, she specialized in economic and social affairs at RMC.

From 1985 to 1993, she was head of the economics department and deputy editor of TF1.

From 1993 to 1995, she was head of the economics department and deputy editor at France 3.

In 1995, she was appointed head of the economic and social departments and deputy editor at France 2.

In 1997, she became editor of Télématin and has since then presented the political interview show {{Interlanguage link multi|Les 4 vérités|fr|3=Les Quatre Vérités (émission de télévision)}}.

At the end of 1999, she became the substitute presenter for Béatrice Schönberg for the weekend news show on France 2. It was expected that beginning in March 2007 she would be acting presenter of the weekend news show for a few months, as Schönberg was temporarily dismissed from her post during the election campaign because of her marriage to Jean-Louis Borloo, a government minister. But in September 2006 Élise Lucet, presenter of the France 2 news programme {{Interlanguage link multi|Journal de 13 heures|fr|3=Journal de 13 heures (France 2)}}, announced her pregnancy; thus Laborde instead replaced Lucet, while Laurent Delahousse, who had recently come over from channel M6, became the substitute presenter for Schönberg.

On 24 January 2009, Nicolas Sarkozy, then President of the Republic, appointed her to the TV and Radio Regulatory Council.[http://www.ozap.com/actu/francoise-laborde-christine-kelly-nommees-csa/253094 "Françoise Laborde et Christine Kelly nommées au CSA"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930171336/http://www.ozap.com/actu/francoise-laborde-christine-kelly-nommees-csa/253094 |date=30 September 2013 }}, Ozap.com, 24 January 2009 {{in lang|fr}}

On 3 February 2015, the Prime Minister appointed her to the {{Interlanguage link multi|High Council for Equality between Women and Men|fr|3= Haut Conseil à l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes}}.

Françoise Laborde is a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour, and is in the National Order of Merit. She is also an Officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit.

She is founder and president of PFDM, (Pour les femmes dans les médias – For women in the media), an association for women leaders in the media, and president of the Club des Amis du Refuge, an association for people active in Le Refuge in giving shelter to young people driven from their homes because of their homosexuality.

In February 2012, Laborde and Denise Bombardier were accused by the website {{Interlanguage link multi|Acrimed|fr}} of plagiarism in connection with their 2011 book Ne vous taisez plus!.{{Cite web|author=Henri Maler|author-link=Henri Maler|url=http://www.acrimed.org/article3778.html|title=Françoise Laborde (du CSA) et Denise Bombardier prises en flagrant délit de plagiat|website=Acrimed|date=25 February 2012 |language=French}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/livres/201202/27/01-4500167-allegations-de-plagiat-a-lendroit-de-denise-bombardier.php|title=Allégations de plagiat à l'endroit de Denise Bombardier|newspaper=La Presse|date=27 February 2012 |language=French}} The two authors deny this.{{Cite web|author=Mélanie Colleu|url=http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/quebeccanada/archives/2012/02/20120227-020325.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716163258/http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/quebeccanada/archives/2012/02/20120227-020325.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=16 July 2012|title=Accusations de plagiat|website=canoe.ca|date=27 February 2012 |language=French}}

On 7 June 2013, the High Court of Paris found Éditions Fayard, publisher of the book, guilty of plagiarism, stating that it was "manifest that the text in question reproduces, very often word for word, the plaintiff's work".{{cite web |author=Henri Maler |url=http://www.acrimed.org/article4113.html |title=Les éditions Fayard condamnées pour les plagiats avérés de Françoise Laborde (du CSA…) |website=Acrimed |date=15 July 2013 |accessdate=31 July 2016 |language=French |quote=manifeste que le texte litigieux reproduit, très souvent au mot près, l'article de la demanderesse }}

• {{Cite book|title=Les Mammouths et les jeunes lions. À la recherche de la deuxième droite|author=with Jean-Luc Mano|publisher=Éditions Belfond|year=1990|isbn=978-2714424143}}
• {{Cite book|title=Des sœurs, des mères, des enfants|author=with Catherine Laborde|publisher=Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès|year=1997}}
• {{Cite book|title=Dix jours en mars à Bruxelles|publisher=Éditions Ramsay|year=2000|isbn=978-2841147861}}
• {{Cite book|title=L'Homme du 18 juin 2002|author=with Stéphane Bugat|publisher=Éditions Ramsay|year=2002|isbn=978-2841146086}}
• {{Cite book|title=Pourquoi ma mère me rend folle|publisher=Éditions Ramsay|year=2002|isbn=978-2841146000}}
• {{Cite book|title=Ma mère n'est pas un philodendron|publisher=Éditions Fayard|year=2003|isbn=978-2213617558}}
• {{Cite book|title=Pas de panique Maman est là!|publisher=Éditions Fayard|year=2005|isbn=978-2213622033}}
• {{Cite book|title=C'est encore mieux à cinquante ans|publisher=Éditions Fayard|year=2007|isbn=978-2213628899}}
• {{Cite book|title=Tribulations d'une femme d'aujourd'hui: ça va mieux en le disant!|publisher=Éditions Fayard|year=2008|isbn=978-2213635804}}
• {{Cite book|title=Ne vous taisez plus!|author=with Denise Bombardier|publisher=Éditions Fayard|year=2011|isbn=9782213666525}}
• {{Cite book|title=Muette. Quand ma mère me rendait folle |publisher=Éditions Jean-Claude Gawsewitch |year=2013 |isbn=978-2-35013-404-8 }}
• {{Cite book |title=Les mûres ne comptent pas pour des prunes |publisher=Editions Michel Lafon |year=2015 |author=with Isabelle Duquesnoy }}

She also wrote a foreword:

• {{Cite book|title=La Maladie d'Alzheimer: 100 questions/réponses|author=Caroline Hommet, Karl Mondon and Dominique Beauchamp|publisher=Éditions Ellipses|year=2011|isbn=978-2729865634}}

Laborde is married to Jean-Claude Paris, the former head of Canal+ Belgium and i>Télé.[http://www.tele7.fr/tv/news-tele/mariage-francoise-laborde-a-epouse-jean-claude-paris-cet-apres-midi/(gid)/775945 "Mariage: Françoise Laborde a épousé Jean-Claude Paris cet après-midi!"],Télé 7 Jours, 6 April 2009, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090411124954/http://www.tele7.fr/tv/news-tele/mariage-francoise-laborde-a-epouse-jean-claude-paris-cet-apres-midi/(gid)/775945 archived] at the Wayback Machine 11 April 2009 {{in lang|fr}}. She has two sons from a previous relationship with Manuel Joaquim, TF1 reporter,[http://www.gala.fr/les_stars/leurs_bio/francoise_laborde "Françoise Laborde"], Gala, retrieved 31 July 2016 {{in lang|fr}} winner of the Albert Londres prize, who died in 2006.

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