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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber · Arts & Literature

What

Co-founded L'Express with Françoise Giroud in 1953; author of 'Le Défi américain' (1967), translated into fifteen languages; deputy and minister.

When

13 February 1924, Paris, France — 7 November 2006, Fécamp, France

Where

Paris, France

Founded
L'Express1953
Biography

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Co-founded L'Express with Françoise Giroud in 1953; author of 'Le Défi américain' (1967), translated into fifteen languages; deputy and minister.

How & why

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber was the son of Émile, co-founder of Les Échos; the English Wikipedia states plainly that 'the Schreiber family is a Jewish family'. He wrote on international politics and the Cold War at his father's paper, then in 1953 co-founded the weekly L'Express with Françoise Giroud, first as a supplement and then as a magazine that carried the opposition to the Algerian war. His 1967 book Le Défi américain — 'The American Challenge' — sold 600,000 copies in France and was translated into fifteen languages, warning Europe that it was losing the technology race. He later led the Radical Party, sat as a deputy from 1970 to 1978, and was briefly a minister in 1974.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Servan-Schreiber

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Co-founded L'Express with Françoise Giroud in 1953; author of 'Le Défi américain' (1967), translated into fifteen languages; deputy and minister.

1953

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Servan-Schreiber