Paris (AFP)
Jean Daniel, founder of the Nouvel Observateur, which has become the Obs, died at 99, the weekly announced on Thursday on its website.
"He died Wednesday night at the age of 99 after a long life of passion, commitment and creation," said L'Obs. A great leftist, Jean Daniel had founded in 1964 with Claude Perdriel Le Nouvel Observateur, of which he was the director of the publication until 2008.
"The most prestigious French journalist has passed away. He was both a witness, an actor and a conscience of this world," writes L'Obs.
Born July 21, 1920 in Blida, Algeria, Jean Daniel, born Bensaïd, wrote his first first article in the Express in 1954 for which he covered the Algerian war.
In 1964, he resumes with the industrialist Claude Perdriel "France Observateur" which becomes "Le Nouvel Observateur" and makes it "the weekly of the + second left + and of the great societal fights: legalization of abortion, rights of homosexuals, anti-racism ... ", recalls the Obs.
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