Madeleine Chapsal has had several lives but love has only truly been present in the heart of one of them: the one where, for civil status, she became “Madame Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber’ Each time she appeared on a television set, the novelist did not hesitate to expose herself morally in front of the cameras. Well before the birth of reality TV and shows where we evoke in detail our slightest moods, she managed to reach a large female audience.