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Jean-François Bège, born on November 26, 1949, is a French journalist and writer, former editorialist of the daily newspaper Sud Ouest, president of the ministerial press association from 1993 to 2004, member of the .Academy of Béarn, and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

Biography
Jean-François Bège was born in Nabeul (Tunisia), where his father, Dr. René Bège, a native of Béarn, ran the public hospital under the French protectorate. He graduated in management of communication companies from the University of Paris-Dauphine and from the Centre de formation et de perfectionnement des journalistes (MBA). He spent his youth in Alençon (Orne), in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and in Vichy (Allier).

Jean-François Bège began his career as a journalist in April 1967, working for the Vichy editorial office of the Lyon daily Le Progrès. He participated in the launching of the International Youth and Culture House of Vichy and was appointed, after a national selection, as a member of the French youth delegation to the Olympic Games of Mexico in 1968. He then signed various news reports in Latin America and returned to France to fulfill his military obligations. After his national service, he became an editorial secretary at Le Progrès in Saint-Étienne, then a reporter in charge of the economy and regional politics in Auvergne.

In 1976, he joined the editorial staff of Sud Ouest, where he successively held several positions: deputy head and then head of the bureau in Pau (1976-1983), head of department in Bordeaux, parliamentary columnist and then columnist and director of the Paris editorial staff (1983-2003).

At the same time, he has regularly collaborated with Radio France (France Inter and France bleu), La Montagne, RMC and the French publishing house Chronique.

From 2003 to 2008, he managed two subsidiaries of Groupe Sud Ouest, as Chairman and CEO of Éditions Sud Ouest and Rando Diffusion SA.

In 2011, he became editor-in-chief of Le Courrier du Parlement magazine and participated in the television series Les Rois de France.

Since April 2020, Jean-François Bège is first deputy mayor of La Ferté-Vidame (Eure-et-Loir) and vice-president of the Communauté de communes des Forêts du Perche, in charge of Culture and Tourism.

Associative commitments

 * Vice-President of the French Association of Parliamentary Journalists (1986 - 1988)
 * President of the French Professional Association of Ministerial Press (1993 - 2004)
 * Member of the jury of the French Political Book Prize (1999-2006)
 * President of the Bordeaux Press Club (2005-2007)
 * President of the Association des Amis de la Ferté-Vidame (since 2009)
 * Member of the jury of the Prix Saint-Simon (since 2010)

Awards and honors

 * Prix Chaptal 1996, for the Arts of Communication and Training, awarded by the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale
 * Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, since January 1st 1999
 * Prix des Trois Couronnes 2010 for the body of his work
 * Accepted as a member of the Academy of Bearn on July 2, 2013

Publications

 * Le Guide de la presse (Marrimpouey, 1980)
 * Visiter Pau (Editions Sud Ouest, 1992, translated into English and republished in 1998, 2005 and 2013)
 * Les Béarnais en politique, de Gaston Fébus à François Bayrou (Cairn, 2004)
 * Simenon à Vichy (Médiabolique, 2005)
 * Manuel de la rédaction (CFPJ, 2008)


 * Ravaillac, l’assassin d’Henri IV (Editions Sud Ouest, 2010)
 * Le fabuleux destin des Bernadotte (Editions Sud Ouest, 2013)

In collaboration:


 * Et ce sera Justice (Plon, 1996), with Charles Libman
 * Barbouze du Général (Le Cherche-midi, 2004), with Pierre Lemarchand
 * Couleur de Pau (Cairn, 2007) with Claude Marissal
 * Les Visages de la République (Le Bord de l'eau/Sciences-Po Bordeaux, 2008), with François Ducasse
 * Les Racines et les Rêves (Editions Le Télégramme, 2010), with Anicet Le Pors