He is a figure in journalism who has passed away. Jean-François Kahn, founder of Thursday Event in 1984 then the weekly Marianne in 1997, died at the age of 86, announced The Point this Thursday, January 23. Information confirmed by his entourage to AFP.
Son of the philosopher Jean Kahn, Jean-François Kahn was also a polemicist, committed to the center. He died Wednesday, said his wife Rachel Assouline-Kahn.
The press man supported François Bayrou’s presidential candidacy in 2007 and 2012, saying he was “convinced that he was the man France needed.” He ran for the 2009 European elections on a MoDem list but without taking the party card. He will resign as soon as he is elected to resume writing and the debates he loves so much.
“A giant and a rare man”
“Jean-François Kahn was a giant and a rare man. The incredible creativity which animated him, his audacity, made him found real period newspapers, L’Evénement du Jeudi, Marianne. He embodied ‘revolutionary centrism’ , humanism and loyalty”, reacted on the social network X the Prime Minister, François Bayrou.
Jean-François Kahn was also the brother of the geneticist doctor Axel Kahn, who died in 2021.