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No one could know that the ecclesiastical relaxed implementation which receives in his Office of boulevard Denfert-Rochereau is one of the most powerful men of the press and the French Edition. And yet. This young quinquagénaire, Benoît Grière, a former doctor, is the "provincial" for the France of the Congregation of the assumptionists. That is the pattern of a religious brotherhood which is also the sole shareholder of Bayard Presse. A major player in the world of communication, with its 158 newspapers around the world, its 700 books published each year and its 36 million readers. But also a unique group of its kind by its atypical history, as by its ability to combine the spiritual and the entrepreneurial.
Its Genesis is more to the circumstances of the French political past as an economic purpose. Under the auspices of Emmanuel of Alzon, the founder of the assumptionists, Father Vincent-de-Paul Bailly, an engineer in the Congregation, was released in the early 1870s a small sheet of binding for Catholics who participated in pilgrimages to Lourdes or in the Holy land. "The Pilgrim" was born - hundred and forty years later, he is always there and today launches a new formula. The improvised editor then multiplied the titles. If some are the word of Catholicism in the various social categories - "The farmer", "The cross of the sailors"...-, others relate explicitly to the combat of ideas - "Caught Freemasonry" - or are intended for more distractives purposes, such as "the Cosmos", intended for lovers of science, or "The Fascinateur", first French cinema magazine. This Holy wing will be from 1883 "the cross" for flagship.
Some one hundred and thirty years later, the Congregation and his paper empire survived the anticléricales activities of the IIIeRépublique, in the internal debates the Church and all of the mutations of the media. Best, after a certain lethargy in the middle of the 20th century, the ex-"House of the good press", renamed Bayard press in 1970, has lived a real resurrection and multiplied the number of its titles. No miracle in this renewal. It is based on a carefully matured formula: "our model is that of a"work-business"," says Father Grière. The objective is to reconcile the transmission of the Christian message with the rules of the game in a highly competitive sector. To achieve this, the assumptionists, remaining shareholders at 100, set up a power-sharing. Since the second world war, the laity took the relay in daily animation. The French publications of the group are now in their ranks than 8 religion on 488 journalists. However, fathers still present in executive bodies. They are 4 to 8 in the Supervisory Board, and one of them is one of the 4 members of the Executive Board. No holder of a function with responsibility in the administration or the editorial offices, could not, moreover, be appointed without their imprimatur.
Management giving-giving
This giving-giving also applies to the management of the business: if it must seek constantly to ensure profitability, the Congregation, in return for this self-discipline, undertakes to collect dividends on the identified benefits. "We we ban considered a non-profit heritage Bayard", says Father Grière, who recalled that the assumptionists have, on the contrary, divested of real estate assets when it took breathe oxygen to newspapers in a period of belt-tightening. Religious themselves are, however, granted flexibility by separating their land possessions of their interests in the press and publishing, binding to the Bayard passage to leave its occupied space price of friend in the eponymous Street in the heart of the Parisian 8earrondissement, to exile in Montrouge. The prospect of opening of the capital, it excluded. "Have a single shareholder provides exceptional stability in the world of media, and ensures the sustainability of the project," insisted Georges Sanerot, President of the Executive Board. Dear independence to the assumptionists is still supported by the fact that advertising revenue do not exceed 10 of the resources of the group.
Doctrinal fidelity, editorial freedom
Particularism is expressed also in social relationships. Daily Vespers are no longer, even if a small oratory where two masses are celebrated each week has been installed on the site of Montrouge. No obligation nor certificate of baptism or even religious to be recruited. But membership in the collective project is formalized in each journal, editorial Charter expressing the House values, that entrants are committed to comply with. What exclude indifference as well as the excesses of proselytism.
No one could know that the ecclesiastical relaxed implementation which receives in his Office of boulevard Denfert-Rochereau is one of the most powerful men of the press and the French Edition. And yet. This young quinquagénaire, Benoît Grière, a former doctor, is the "provincial" for the France of the Congregation of the assumptionists. That is the pattern of a religious brotherhood which is also the sole shareholder of Bayard Presse. A major player in the world of communication, with its 158 newspapers around the world, its 700 books published each year and its 36 million readers. But also a unique group of its kind by its atypical history, as by its ability to combine the spiritual and the entrepreneurial.
Its Genesis is more to the circumstances of the French political past as an economic purpose. Under the auspices of Emmanuel of Alzon, the founder of the assumptionists, Father Vincent-de-Paul Bailly, an engineer in the Congregation, was released in the early 1870s a small sheet of binding for Catholics who participated in pilgrimages to Lourdes or in the Holy land. "The Pilgrim" was born - hundred and forty years later, he is always there and today launches a new formula. The improvised editor then multiplied the titles. If some are the word of Catholicism in the various social categories - "The farmer", "The cross of the sailors"...-, others relate explicitly to the combat of ideas - "Caught Freemasonry" - or are intended for more distractives purposes, such as "the Cosmos", intended for lovers of science, or "The Fascinateur", first French cinema magazine. This Holy wing will be from 1883 "the cross" for flagship.
Some one hundred and thirty years later, the Congregation and his paper empire survived the anticléricales activities of the IIIeRépublique, in the internal debates the Church and all of the mutations of the media. Best, after a certain lethargy in the middle of the 20th century, the ex-"House of the good press", renamed Bayard press in 1970, has lived a real resurrection and multiplied the number of its titles. No miracle in this renewal. It is based on a carefully matured formula: "our model is that of a"work-business"," says Father Grière. The objective is to reconcile the transmission of the Christian message with the rules of the game in a highly competitive sector. To achieve this, the assumptionists, remaining shareholders at 100, set up a power-sharing. Since the second world war, the laity took the relay in daily animation. The French publications of the group are now in their ranks than 8 religion on 488 journalists. However, fathers still present in executive bodies. They are 4 to 8 in the Supervisory Board, and one of them is one of the 4 members of the Executive Board. No holder of a function with responsibility in the administration or the editorial offices, could not, moreover, be appointed without their imprimatur.
Management giving-giving
This giving-giving also applies to the management of the business: if it must seek constantly to ensure profitability, the Congregation, in return for this self-discipline, undertakes to collect dividends on the identified benefits. "We we ban considered a non-profit heritage Bayard", says Father Grière, who recalled that the assumptionists have, on the contrary, divested of real estate assets when it took breathe oxygen to newspapers in a period of belt-tightening. Religious themselves are, however, granted flexibility by separating their land possessions of their interests in the press and publishing, binding to the Bayard passage to leave its occupied space price of friend in the eponymous Street in the heart of the Parisian 8earrondissement, to exile in Montrouge. The prospect of opening of the capital, it excluded. "Have a single shareholder provides exceptional stability in the world of media, and ensures the sustainability of the project," insisted Georges Sanerot, President of the Executive Board. Dear independence to the assumptionists is still supported by the fact that advertising revenue do not exceed 10 of the resources of the group.
Doctrinal fidelity, editorial freedom
Particularism is expressed also in social relationships. Daily Vespers are no longer, even if a small oratory where two masses are celebrated each week has been installed on the site of Montrouge. No obligation nor certificate of baptism or even religious to be recruited. But membership in the collective project is formalized in each journal, editorial Charter expressing the House values, that entrants are committed to comply with. What exclude indifference as well as the excesses of proselytism.
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