Serge July

{{Short description|French journalist (born 1942)}} {{Expand language|langcode=fr|date=March 2026}} {{infobox person | name = Serge July | image = Serge July par Claude Truong-Ngoc février 2014.jpg | caption = Serge July by Claude Truong-Ngoc, 2014 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|12|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = Paris, France | occupation = Journalist<br>Editor<br>Writer<br>Director<br>Script writer | known_for = Founder of ''Libération'' }} '''Serge July''' ({{IPA|fr|sɛʁʒ ʒyli}}; born 27 December 1942) is a French journalist, editor, founder of the daily ''Libération'', and a prominent figure in French politics from the 1970s through the 1990s. He is the author of several books and has directed more than fifty documentaries about cinema and politics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Serge July A Love Letter to NYC |url=https://fiaf.org/event/2022-12-serge-july-exhibition/ |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) |language=en-US}}</ref> In recent times, he has been active in French organizations working in support of journalists taken hostage in Syria.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jun/14/pressandpublishing.france|title = France's leftwing mouthpiece plunged into existential crisis as editor told to leave|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 14 June 2006}}</ref>

==Critics== {{See also|Tourancheau and July vs. France}} In 1978, he published an article criticizing the television series ''Holocaust'', invited Pierre Guillaume, negationist founder of the bookstore, La Vieille Taupe and supports the freedom of speech of Robert Faurisson.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.conspiracywatch.info/negationnistes-quand-tombent-les-masques-1-2_a1005.html | title=Négationnistes : Quand tombent les masques… (1/2) | date=26 February 2013 }}</ref> On 4 July 1983 he was condemned by the 17th chamber of the Paris judicial tribunal, following the complaint of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), of having published in a "Courrier readers" of 31 July 1982, an anti-Semitic letter, accused of defamation, incitement to hatred and racial violence.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1983/07/06/m-serge-july-est-condamne-pour-provocation-a-la-violence-raciale_2837730_1819218.html | title=M. Serge July est condamné pour provocation à la violence raciale | newspaper=Le Monde.fr | date=6 July 1983 }}</ref>

==Works== * (with Alain Geismar) ''Vers la guerre civile'', 1969 * ''Les années Mitterrand : histoire baroque d'une normalisation inachevée'', 1986 * ''Le salon des artistes'', 1989 * ''Dictionnaire amoureux de New York,'' 2019<ref name=":0" />

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==External links== * [http://www.eurochannel.com/en/A-Film-and-its-Era-My-Uncle-France.html My Uncle on Eurochannel] * {{IMDb name}} * [https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/p/serge-july/ Serge July] at Cannes Film Festival

{{DEFAULTSORT:July, Serge}} Category:1942 births Category:Living people Category:French male journalists Category:French newspaper founders Category:Journalists from Paris