Patrick Buisson | |
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Born |
Paris, France |
19 April 1949
Nationality | French |
Education | Lycée Pasteur |
Alma mater | Paris West University Nanterre La Défense |
Occupation | Historian, journalist, political advisor |
Children | Georges Buisson |
Parent(s) | Georges Buisson |
Patrick Buisson (born 1949 in Paris) is a conservative French historian, journalist and political advisor. He was a journalist for Minute, Valeurs Actuelles and Le Crapouillot as well as La Chaîne Info. He has written several books about Vichy France, the Algerian War and the Indochina War. The founder and co-owner of Publifact, a polling agency, he was a key advisor to former President Nicolas Sarkozy from 2006 to 2012, during which time he surreptitiously recorded private conversations he had with the president. He is the co-presenter of Historiquement show, a television program on Histoire, a subsidiary of the TF1 Group, which he chairs.
Patrick Buisson was born on April 19, 1949 in Paris, France. His father, Georges Buisson, an engineer for Électricité de France, was a member of the Camelots du Roi, and later the Rally for the Republic. His parents divorced when he was five years old, and he lived with his mother. Together, they demonstrated for the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which attempted to rid Hungaria of Soviet influence. When he was twelve years old, he went to live with his father.
He was educated at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. He received a PhD in History from Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, where his thesis supervisor was Raoul Girardet.