"He was at the same time a witness, an actor and a conscience of this world", declares the magazine Obs which pays homage to its founder, died Wednesday evening at the age of 99 years. The one who had written, in 1954, his first article for L'Express on the war in Algeria, made of France Observateur , the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur ten years later alongside the industrialist Claude Perdriel, who became Obs by the following. He was the director of the publication until 2008, but continued to collaborate with the magazine as an editorial writer.
In 2013, he was raised to the rank of grand officer of the Legion of Honor by the then Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault.