Madeleine Chapsal died overnight in Pouliguen (Loire-Atlantique), at the age of 98. She had experienced 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.