President Emmanuel Macron ELysee
Source: Rahma Sophia Rachdi, J Foster
François Régis Hutin was a great artisan of the influence of the newspaper Ouest-France to which he devoted his life, he died Sunday night. He delivered Tuesday, December 12th his last editorial. “Dear readers, dear associates, dear collaborators,
When these lines appear, I will have left this world but I have the firm hope that the bonds of friendship will continue beyond death. I hope I will not have bothered you too much with my writings. I tried to contribute in my humble place to this slow human rise, too slow, but still mounted that has undertaken this immense cohort of men since the dawn of time.-----------------
I know it was a presumptuous task to try to read the signs of the times. It was not a learned teaching but a kind of research conducted with you that often made me know your opinions sometimes contrary to mine. Here lies the richness of the dialogue indispensable in any society and absolutely necessary to the democracy which is dear to us and so precious that it is necessary to take care of it. I thank from the bottom of my heart all those who have helped me and supported me in this task for half a century now.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To everyone I have disappointed, I apologize. To those whom I could hurt or hurt, I ask to forgive me.“ Francois Regis Hutin published his last column at Ouest France. He died at 88 on December 12th.The French President Macron gives a tribute to him greeting his long and exceptional career of a great journalist dedicated to his passion and committed to his humanity.
“If he was a great press director, François-Régis Hutin, who left us at the age of 88, was at first a journalist of exemplary rigor, trained at the rough school of reporters. He was appreciated for his humanity and open-mindedness, which was reflected in articles and editorials with accurate and balanced analyzes. Under his leadership, Ouest-France has risen to the top spot in the French-language dailies, with nearly 700,000 copies distributed every day. It was also able to adapt to the digital transformation, with a website hosting nearly 65 million hits every month. François Régis Hutin was a Christian-Democrat of ideal, he was consciously married to fights such as the abolition of the death penalty, the freedom of education, and especially Europe, his great concern, which until his last breath animated his words and his writings. Exchanging with him was always a source of new and interesting lights." The President of theFrench Republic, Emmanuel Macron sends his family, his family and the editorial board of Ouest-France his most sincere condolences. Spec Elysee, Ouest France
