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AFP announced Tuesday that journalist and writer Madeleine Chapsal died overnight in Pouliguen (Loire-Atlantique), at the age of 98.
She notably participated in the launch of the newspaper L'Express in 1953. One of her best-known books is "The Man of my Life".
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 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.
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A hundred books to his credit
After her ouster from the magazine, she began writing: novels, stories, essays, books for young people, theater, poetry... in total, around a hundred books.
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
.
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.
The writer has adapted several of her books for the cinema, such as
The Jade House
(1988, by Nadine Trintignant),
The Abandoned Woman
(1992, by Edouard Molinaro) or
The Inventory
(1998, by Caroline Huppert).
Juror of the Femina Prize from 1981, she was brutally excluded in 2006 for having denounced the conditions for awarding the 2005 prize, too favorable, according to her, to Gallimard editions.
Born on September 1, 1925 in Paris, she was the daughter of an advisor to the Court of Auditors and the granddaughter of a former minister.
His mother was a renowned seamstress.
She met JJSS in 1942. Married in 1947, they divorced in 1960. She married again with Jean-Marc Vallet in Pouliguen in 2019, at the age of 93