Announced Wednesday evening, Xavier Niel's decision to transfer his stake in
Le Monde
to an endowment fund
raises the question of what will happen to that of his co-shareholder Matthieu Pigasse.
Since the death in 2017 of Pierre Bergé, who had been alongside Niel and Pigasse since 2010, the founder of Free and the investment banker have coexisted, in equal parts, in Le Monde libre, which controls the press group (
Le Monde
,
L'Obs
,
Télérama
,
Courrier international
).
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If this cohabitation was initially smooth, it took a winding turn in October 2018, when Matthieu Pigasse sold a minority share (49%) of his company Le Nouveau Monde (which holds his stake in Le Monde libre) to Daniel Kretinsky.
The employees of
Le Monde
were alarmed that a Czech energy magnate, certainly Francophile and owner of
Marianne
(since April 2018), suddenly entered the capital of one of the first national dailies.
The more so as Daniel Kretinsky, who since
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