EXCLUSIVE: how Pierre-Édouard Stérin’s former right-hand man was named Bayard’s number 2

At the start of the month, the signals were still weak. In France, among the 1,300 employees of the youth press and publishing group Bayard, owner of the daily the Cross, from the weekly the Pilgrim and a host of key titles for children, very few noticed it in the very first message from François Morinière, the chairman of the board of directors, who took office on 1^is November.

It was a discreet note which served to attribute the concluding quote of his email to “Saint John Paul II”, instead of Pope Francis sometimes accused, horresco referens, of “progressivism”. Few, too, have noticed the Arabic letter “nūn” (for “Nazarene”) attached to the name of the new boss on his X account, a symbol, initially, of support for Eastern Christians, which has become a cry of rallying of the cathosphere from the ranks of the Manif pour tous…

Bayard alongside Bolloré and Arnault, the unions are worried

First spectacular accident, last November 15. The ESJ Paris, an old school of journalism not recognized by the profession, scolds everyone by publishing a press release on its takeover by a conglomerate of bosses like Vincent Bolloré, Bernard Arnault, Rodolphe Saadé or even the ex- Medef Pierre Gattaz… Among the lot, the presence of Bayard, 100% controlled by the congregation of the Augustins of the Assumption, astounds its employees.