Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber (31 October 193728 November 2020) was a French journalist. He was the co-founder of ''

L'Expansion ''L'Expansion'' was a French former monthly business magazine based in Paris, France, which existed between 1967 and 2017. History and profile ''L'Expansion'' was founded by Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber and Jean Boissonnat in 1967. In 1994 the m ...

'' and the founder of ''

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'' and

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. He was the author of several books.

Early life

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was born on 31 October 1937, in

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, France. His father,

Émile Servan-Schreiber Émile Servan-Schreiber (1888-1967) was a French journalist. He was the co-founder of '' Les Échos''. He was the author of several books. Early life Émile Servan-Schreiber was born as Émile Schreiber on December 20, 1888, in Paris, France. His ...

, was a French journalist of Jewish-Prussian descent. His mother was Denise Bresard. The Servan-Schreibers (up to 200 members) have a

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every five years. As a child Servan-Schreiber aspired to become a psychoanalyst but, being born into a family of journalists went into that profession. He graduated from

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in 1960.

Career

Servan-Schreiber was a journalist. He first wrote for ''Echos'', which had been co-founded by his father, followed by ''

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'' which had been founded by his brother

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 19247 November 2006), was a French journalist and politician. He co-founded ''L'Express'' in 1953 with Françoise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Radical ...

. Having experience of reading American news magazines from a period spent teaching at

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Servan-Schreiber worked with his brother to transform ''L'Express'' into a similar publication, the first of its kind in France. Servan-Schreiber went on to found his own press company, L'Expansion, in 1967 with

Jean Boissonnat Jean Boissonnat (16 January 1929 – 25 September 2016) was a French economic journalist. He was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of ''L'Expansion''. He was the author of several books. Early life Jean Boissonnat was born on 16 January 1929 in ...

. He co-founded the magazine ''

'' with Boissonnat in 1967 and ''Lire'' with

Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot (; born 5 May 1935) is a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2020. Biography Pivot was born in Lyon, the son of two grocers. During Worl ...

in 1975. Servan-Schreiber would remain a director of ''L'Expansion'' for 27 years, and expand it to several foreign editions. He founded

in 1982. He was the owner of ''

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'', a Moroccan newspaper, from 1994 to 1997, having acquired a special exemption from that nation's foreign ownership rules via Moroccan prime minister

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. Servan-Schreiber took over ''

'' in 1997, and sold it to the

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in 2008 having increased its circulation from 75,000 to 350,000 to become the second best-selling women's monthly in France. He founded another magazine, ''Clés'', in 2010. At times the L'Expansion group also ran ''La Vie Financière'', ''La Lettre de L’Expansion'' and ''La Tribune''. During the 1970s Servan-Schreiber appeared frequently on the TF1 programme ''Questionnaire''. Servan-Schreiber was the author of several books and around twenty essays. He served as the chairman of the French chapter of

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since 2007. Servan-Schreiber was known by the initials JLSS.

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. In 1987, he married his second wife, Perla. He died from

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on 28 November 2020, at the age of 83.Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber est décédé

Works

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References

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