Journalist and writer Madeleine Chapsal died overnight in Pouliguen (Loire-Atlantique), at the age of 98, her husband announced to AFP on Tuesday.
She had lived closely, alongside her previous husband Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the launch of L'Express in 1953. She was a renowned literary critic there until the early 1970s, known among other things for memorable interviews with figures like Jorge Luis Borges, Jean Giono, Henry Miller and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
We owe him “A Summer Without History”, “La Maison de Jade” (700,000 copies sold), “A Season of Leaves”, “Mother and Daughters”, “David” (tribute to one of JJSS’s sons), “ What Françoise Dolto taught me”, “L’Inoubliée”, etc.
One of his best-known books is “The Man of My Life” (2004), an account of his story with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, an often sad text, where the intimate mixes with History and its protagonists. , such as François Mauriac, Pierre Mendès France or François Mitterrand.
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