Le Siècle

Le Siècle   (Deep state milieu)
Formation	1944
Headquarters	France
Leader	Le Siècle/President
Type	•  think tank •  influence network
Interests	France, elite network
Interest of	Dutch Round Table
Subpage	•Le Siècle/President
Membership	•  Alof de Louvencourt •  Ludovic Tron •  Pierre Moussa •  Jacques Fauvet •  Marcel Boiteux •  Jérôme Monod •  Jean Francois-Poncet •  Jacques Fauve •  Maurice Ulrich •  Marceau Long •  Simon Nora •  Roger Fauroux •  Jean-Claude Paye •  Jacques Rigaud •  Jean Dromer •  Gérard Worms •  Louis Schweitzer •  Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc •  Nicole Notat •  Denis Kessler •  Jean Veil •  Patricia Barbizet •  Thierry Breton •  Alain Lamassoure •  Pascal Lamy •  Alain Minc •  Christian Noyer •  Dominique Strauss-Kahn •  Jean-Claude Trichet •  Jacques Attali •  Claude Bébéar •  Antoine Bernheim •  Daniel Bouton •  Thierry Derez •  Jean-Yves Haberer •  Michel Pébereau •  Jean Peyrelevade •  Édouard de Rothschild •  Jean-Paul Agon •  Delphine Arnault •  Bernard Bigot •  Pierre-André de Chalendar •  Pierre Bilger •  Bertrand Collomb •  Stéphane Courbit •  Serge Dassault •  Étienne Davignon •  Bertrand Eveno •  Louis Gallois •  Guillaume Pepy •  Antoine Guichard •  Philippe Jaffré •  Denis Kessler •  Lisette Mayret •  Jean-Marie Messier •  Arlette Chabot •  Emmanuel Chain •  Jean-Marie Colombani •  Anne-Marie Couderc •  Michèle Cotta •  Teresa Cremisi •  Alain Duhamel •  Olivier Duhamel •  Michel Field •  Franz-Olivier Giesbert •  Claude Imbert •  Odile Jacob •  Denis Jeambar •  Laurent Joffrin •  Serge July •  Étienne Lacour •  Maurice Lévy •  André Lévy-Lang •  Serge Moati •  Denis Olivennes •  Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette •  Bernard Pivot •  Patrick Poivre d'Arvor •  Alain de Pouzilhac •  David Pujadas •  Alain-Gérard Slama •  Anne Sinclair •  Marc Tessier •  Gérard Worms •  Fadela Amara •  Fadela Amara •  Martine Aubry •  Robert Badinter •  Michel Barnier •  Jacques Barrot •  François Bayrou •  Eric Besson •  Michel Bon •  Jeannette Bougrab •  Hervé de Charette •  Jean-Pierre Chevènement •  Jean-François Copé •  Xavier Darcos •  Rachida Dati •  Laurent Fabius •  Luc Ferry •  Aurélie Filippetti •  François Fillon •  Élisabeth Guigou •  Adeline Hazan •  Patrick Hetzel •  Martin Hirsch •  François Hollande •  Nicolas Sarkozy •  Jean-Paul Huchon •  Anne-Marie Idrac •  Lionel Jospin •  Jean-Pierre Jouyet •  Alain Juppé •  Bernard Kouchner •  Jack Lang •  Noëlle Lenoir •  Corinne Lepage •  Charles Millon •  Pierre Moscovici •  Jean-Pierre Raffarin •  Jacques Rigaud •  Manuel Valls •  Jacques Toubon •  Michel Vauzelle •  Henri Weber •  Hubert Védrine •  Rama Yade •  Marisol Touraine •  Simon Nora •  Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc •  Richard Descoings •  Michel Gaudin •  Simone Rozès •  Olivier Schrameck •  Frédéric Mion •  Hélène Ahrweiler •  Anne Levade •  Laurent Batsch •  Christian de Boissieu •  Daniel Cohen •  Alain Cotta •  Élie Cohen •  Patrick Hetzel •  Henri Loyrette •  Karol Beffa •  Yamina Benguigui •  Pascal Bruckner •  Hélène Carrère d'Encausse •  Françoise Chandernagor •  Marc Lambron •  Bruno Mantovani •  Jean Tulard •  Jean-Christophe Le Duigou •  Nicole Notat •  Laurence Parisot •  Ernest-Antoine Seillière
A long established elite network in the French elite

Not to be confused with the highly secretive deep state milieu, Le Cercle

Le Siècle is an elite bi-partisan social club in France that meets once a month for dinner at the French Automobile Club in Paris's Place de la Concorde. Membership in Le Siècle "symbolizes the French nomenklatura" and includes France's top intellectuals, politicians, chief executives, journalists, and artists; since the 1970s, one-third to half of all French government ministers were members of Le Siècle, regardless of political affiliation or party membership. That percentage peaked at 72% under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur (1993–95). French journalist and writer Emmanuel Ratier wrote in 1996 that the club's membership controls 90% of French GDP.

There are 580 members, subject to change every year, and 160 guests.

History

Le Siècle (English: 'the Century') was founded in 1944 by Georges Bérard-Quélin, a journalist and Freemason. The small group of the 1940s and 1950s eventually expanded to include major politicians across the political spectrum, from François Mitterrand, who was close associate of Bérard-Quélin, to Georges Pompidou via Pierre Mendès France. When a similar think tank called the Saint-Simon Foundation dissolved in 1999, many of its former members joined Le Siècle.

In the immediate post-war period, deep cleavages fragment the ruling class: resistance fighters against Vichy collaborators; bosses - liberal or right-wing - against senior planning officials; disunited political parties against a Communist Party at the height of its electoral results. Bérard-Quélin and his associates worked to reconcile the elites, and to exclude the communists.

Members opinion

"I really like Le Siècle," says Mrs. Martine Aubry. I stopped going there in 1997 when I became minister. It was very interesting. I found myself at tables with extremely different people (...). The initiative can be perceived as totally elitist, but it remains a real meeting place. I learned a lot from it. Because, for me, real intelligence means trying to understand people who have a different logic." The former right-hand man of Mr. Jacques Delors, Mr. Pascal Lamy, current director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), explains his presence as a form of getting access: "It is important that the men on the left don't let the decision-makers be in contact only with the right." Others, like Pierre Moscovici, admit straight away that Le Siècle turns out to be" a very influential social network."

List of members (selection)

• Claude Bébéar, former CEO of AXA
• Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos, former Minister Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry (2005-2007).
• Emmanuel Chain, former TV presenter on M6
• Jean-Marie Colombani, former editor-in-chief of Le Monde (1994-2007)
• Jean-François Copé, President of the Union for a Popular Movement; member of the French National Assembly (2002-incumbent); Mayor of Meaux (1995-2002; 2005-incumbent); former Minister of the Budget (2005-2007)
• Michèle Cotta, first female member in 1983; political journalist
• Anne-Marie Couderc, CEO of Presstalis
• Rachida Dati, Member of the European Parliament and Mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris; former Minister of Justice (2007-2009)
• Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc, member of the Constitutional Council of France (2007-incumbent)
• Olivier Duhamel, Vice-President of Le Siècle (2010-incumbent); professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris; former Socialist Member of the European Parliament (1997-2004)
• Laurent Fabius, former Prime Minister (1984-1986)
• François Fillon, Prime Minister (2007-2012); former Minister of National Education (2004-2005); former Minister of Social Affairs (2002-2004).
• Claude Imbert, founding editor of Le Point
• Odile Jacob, publisher.
• Denis Jeambar, journalist.
• Laurent Joffrin former editor-in-chief of Libération (2006-2011)>
• Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister (1997-2002), former Minister of National Education (1988-1992); former Minister of Sport (1988-1991)
• Serge July, founding editor of Libération
• Denis Kessler, CEO of Scor, former President of Le Siècle (2007-2010)
• Étienne Lacour, Secretary General of Le Siècle; editor-in-chief of the Société Générale de Presse.
• Maurice Lévy, CEO of Publicis
• Henri Loyrette, Vice-President of Le Siècle (2010-incumbent); director of the Louvre Museum (2001-incumbent)
• Nicole Notat, President of Le Siècle (2010-incumbent); CEO of Vigeo; former Secretary General of the CFDT
• Michel Pébereau, CEO of BNP Paribas
• Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, newscaster on TF1
• Alain de Pouzilhac, former CEO of Havas
• David Pujadas, TV presenter on France 2
• Jean-Pierre Raffarin, member of the French Senate; former Prime Minister (2002-2005)
• Edouard de Rothschild
• Nicolas Sarkozy, French President (2007-2012).
• Louis Schweitzer, former CEO of Renault
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (2007-2011)
• Marc Tessier, Treasurer of Le Siècle (2010-incumbent); former Chairman of France Télévisions
• Philippe Villin, former Chairman of Le Figaro and France Soir
• Gérard Worms, former CEO of N M Rothschild & Sons

Presidents

• Alof de Louvencourt 1944-49
• Ludovic Tron 1950-65
• Pierre Moussa 1966-68
• Jacques Fauvet 1969-71
• Marcel Boiteux1972-74
• Jérôme Monod 1975
• Pierre Moussa 1975
• Jean Francois-Poncet1976
• Jacques Fauvet1976-78
• Maurice Ulrich 1979-81
• Marceau Long 1982-84
• Simon Nora 1985-87
• Roger Fauroux 1988
• Marceau Long 1988-90
• Jean-Claude Paye 1991-93
• Jacques Rigaud 1994-96
• Jean Dromer 1997-98
• Gérard Worm 1999-2001
• Louis Schweitzer 2001-2004
• Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc2005-2007
• Denis Kessler 2008-2010
• Nicole Notat 2001-2013
• Jean Veil : 20014-2016
• Patricia Barbizet 2017-

 

Known members

51 of the 152 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Jacques Attali	French deep politician and academic. "The real bourgeoisie running the world is about 1,000 people. They are running capitalism." Attended the 1975 Bilderberg, Le siecle
Martine Aubry	French politician, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow 1993
Robert Badinter	French judge and politician who gave the legal fig leaf for the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. Did favors for the Rothschild family. Husband of Elisabeth Badinter
Patricia Barbizet	Prominent figure in the French business world
Éric Besson
Marcel Boiteux	President of Le Siècle who worked his whole career for Électricité de France and created French energy independence with nuclear power. Bilderberg/1973.
Michel Bon	French enarquiste businessman. One of the first Young Leaders of the French-American Foundation. Attended two Bilderbergs in the early 2000s.
Thierry Breton	French politician and leader of large corporations, briefly at Rothschild & Cie Banque. WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1998. From 2019 European Commissioner implementing censorship.
Claude Bébéar	French insurance executive and organizer of the business lobby.
Pierre-André de Chalendar	Double Bilderberg French businessman.
Jean-Pierre Chevenement	French Bilderberger politician
Bertrand Collomb	Connected French businessman. 13 Bilderbergs.
Jean-François Copé	French politician
Étienne Davignon	Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president
Alain Duhamel
Olivier Duhamel	President of the deep state club Le Siècle. He organized many events with the French intelligentsia, involving a lot of sex and alcohol and mixing adults and children.
Laurent Fabius	French politician who attended the 1994 and 2016 Bilderbergs
François Fillon	Bilderberger billionaire fraudster, French PM from 2007-2012
Pierre Mendès France	Prime Minister of France in the 1950s, Bilderberg 1968, Le Siecle
Jean François-Poncet	French Minister of Foreign Affairs in the late 1970s, attended 2 Bilderbergs in the early 1980s. A panelist on Operating The Alliance at the 1985 Bilderberg.
Claude Imbert	French deep state connected columnist and editor. Bilderberg/1991. After his death exposed as France/VIPaedophile.
Philippe Jaffré	French Deep state connected businessman who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the early 1990s.
Lionel Jospin	Bilderberg 1996. French PM 1997-2002
Jean-Pierre Jouyet	Chief of Staff of President of France 2014-17, attended the 2008 Bilderberg
Alain Juppé	French PM, suspected deep state operative, Bilderberg, Le Cercle
Bernard Kouchner	Bilderberg French politician, 3 times French Health minister, founded Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde, attended 2005 pandemic planning exercise Atlantic Storm
Pascal Lamy	Multi-Bilderberg former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Jack Lang	French minister for culture and education. Mentioned in relation to several France/VIPaedophile affairs.
Alof de Louvencourt	First President of Le Siecle
Maurice Lévy	Leader of Publicis Groupe,the world's third largest advertising and communications group for 30 years. Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum. Le Siècle. French Association of Private Enterprises. Compagnie financière Edmond de Rothschild. Deutsche Bank.
André Lévy-Lang	French banker on the Bilderberg Steering committee, 11 Bilderbergs, Le Siècle
Jean-Marie Messier	"France's most colourful and controversial business leader", WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1993
François Mitterrand	President of the France 1981-1995
Jérôme Monod	Le Siècle/President in 1975
Pierre Moscovici	WEF French politician
Christian Noyer	Governor of the Banque de France 2003-2015
Denis Olivennes	French media manager.
Laurence Parisot	French businesswoman
Jean-Claude Paye	French civil servant who attended 2 Bilderberg meetings as Secretary-General of the OECD. President of Le Siècle.
Georges Pompidou	General Manager of the Rothschild bank who was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974 from a rare form of cancer. 1960 Bilderberg
Édouard de Rothschild
Nicolas Sarkozy	French deep state operative charged with "criminal association"
Louis Schweitzer	Second generation Triple Bilderberger Swiss President of Le Siècle
Ernest-Antoine Seillière	Millionaire French businessman, Bilderberg/Steering committee, Le Siècle
Dominique Strauss-Kahn	French deep state operative, IMF Managing Director 2007-2011
Jacques Toubon	French politician
Jean-Claude Trichet	President of the European Central Bank, Governor of the Bank of France, Bilderberg Steering committee
Ludovic Tron	President of French deep state network Le Siècle for 15 years.
Manuel Valls	French-Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of France from 2014 until 2016. Attended the 2008 Bilderberg conference as an up-and-coming politician.
Louis-Charles Viossat	Revolving door Big Pharma lobbyist who was responsible for French Covid vaccine rollout. Replaced in January 2021 because he was perceived as too slow.
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11 November 2021 Terje 

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