Franz-Olivier Giesbert


Franz-Olivier Giesbert is an American-born French journalist, author, and television presenter.
Giesbert worked for Le Figaro from 1988 to 2000 and for Le Point starting in 2000.
In 2013, he wrote the scenario of a documentary about his relationship with the former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, secrets d’une présidence..
Giesbert hosts the cable television, weekly, literary show Le Gai Savoir on Paris Première. In 1999, the show won the Richelieu price of the Association for the Defense of French Language. Since October 2011, he hosts Les Grandes Questions on France 5. And starting in 2012, he also hosts on France 3 the monthly show Le Monde d'après.

Selected novels