François Bonnet
François Bonnet (b. 1959) is a French journalist. He worked at weekly VSD, Libération (1986-1994) and then at Le Monde (1995-2006) where he was chief international editor. Vice-editorial director of French left-wing weekly Marianne, he was one of the founding editors of Mediapart in 2008.
Updated: 17 May 2011
The sudden fall from grace of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has raised two big questions in France. What now for the left that had pinned all its hope on the IMF chief to beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential elections? And why have the media been silent for years as to his troubled relations with women?