Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
Servan-Schreiber in 2019
Born(1937-10-31)31 October 1937
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Died28 November 2020(2020-11-28) (aged 83)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
EducationLycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Alma materSciences Po
OccupationJournalist
Spouses
  • Claude Sadoc
  • Perla Servan-Schreiber
Children4
Parent(s)Émile Servan-Schreiber
Denise Bresard
RelativesJean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (brother)
Brigitte Gros (sister)
Christiane Collange (sister)

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi sɛʁvɑ̃ ʃʁɛbɛʁ];[1] 31 October 1937 – 28 November 2020) was a French journalist. He was the co-founder of L'Expansion and the founder of Psychologies and Radio Classique. He was the author of several books.

Early life

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was born on 31 October 1937, in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. His father, Émile Servan-Schreiber, was a French journalist of Jewish-Prussian descent. His mother was Denise Bresard. The Servan-Schreibers (up to 200 members) have a family reunion every five years.[2]

As a child Servan-Schreiber aspired to become a psychoanalyst but, being born into a family of journalists went into that profession.[3] He graduated from Sciences Po in 1960.[4]

Career

Servan-Schreiber was a journalist.[5][6] He first wrote for Echos, which had been co-founded by his father, followed by L'Express which had been founded by his brother Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber.[4][3] Having experience of reading American news magazines from a period spent teaching at Stanford University Servan-Schreiber worked with his brother to transform L'Express into a similar publication, the first of its kind in France.[3]

Servan-Schreiber went on to found his own press company, L'Expansion, in 1967 with Jean Boissonnat. He co-founded the magazine L'Expansion with Boissonnat in 1967 and Lire with Bernard Pivot in 1975.[4][3] Servan-Schreiber would remain a director of L'Expansion for 27 years, and expand it to several foreign editions.[7] He founded Radio Classique in 1982.[4] He was the owner of La Vie Éco, a Moroccan newspaper, from 1994 to 1997, having acquired a special exemption from that nation's foreign ownership rules via Moroccan prime minister Abdellatif Filali.[4][8] Servan-Schreiber took over Psychologies in 1997, and sold it to the Lagardère Group in 2008 having increased its circulation from 75,000 to 350,000 to become the second best-selling women's monthly in France.[3][4] He founded another magazine, Clés, in 2010.[4] At times the L'Expansion group also ran La Vie Financière, La Lettre de L’Expansion and La Tribune.[3]

During the 1970s Servan-Schreiber appeared frequently on the TF1 programme Questionnaire.[3] Servan-Schreiber was the author of several books and around twenty essays.[4][3] He served as the chairman of the French chapter of Human Rights Watch since 2007.[4] Servan-Schreiber was known by the initials JLSS.[7]

Personal life

Servan-Schreiber was married twice. He married his first wife, Claude Sadoc, in 1957. They had four children; she is now married to a woman, former politician Françoise Gaspard.[9] In 1987, he married his second wife, Perla.[4]

He died from COVID-19 on 28 November 2020, at the age of 83.[10]

Works

References

  1. ^ "80 ans, un certain âge - Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber". YouTube. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  2. ^ Chavelet, Elisabeth (17 January 2015). "Une histoire française". Paris Match. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mort du patron de presse Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber à 83 ans". Le Monde (in French). 29 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Biographie: Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber". Cles. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber". Human Rights Watch. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  6. ^ de Buchet, Valery (22 September 2012). "En privé avec Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber". Le Figaro Madame. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  7. ^ a b "Addio a Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber". La Regione. 29 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Décès de Jean Louis Servan Schreiber/ Ex patron de la Vie économique". La Quotidienne (in French). 29 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  9. ^ Semont, Armelle (8 August 2013). "Françoise Gaspard et Claude Servan-Schreiber, le mariage n'a pas d'âge". Gala. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  10. ^ Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber est décédé Paris Match (in French)
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