Both public and private television channels are in mourning. Hervé Bourges, great figure of the French audiovisual and fervent defender of the Francophonie, died Sunday at the age of 86 years. He died in a Paris hospital, surrounded by his wife and relatives, said Olivier Zegna-Rata, who was his chief of staff at the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA).
Ambassador of France to Unesco
Journalist, successive boss of the television channels TF1, France 2 and France 3, and radio (RFI), Hervé Bourges had been at the head of the CSA from 1995 to 2001. Besides his eminent roles in the media, Hervé Bourges was also a anti-colonial activist during the Algerian war, a lover of Africa and a fervent defender of the French-speaking world.
Born May 2, 1933 in Rennes in Ille-et-Vilaine, he graduated from the Lille School of Journalism (ESJ) in 1955. His life was then a long journey between media, politics and even diplomacy, a time ambassador of France to Unesco. He had signed in 2012 a last documentary "Algeria in the test of power", with the director Jérôme Sesquin.
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