To celebrate the magazine’s 70th anniversary, L’Express is organizing an exceptional conference, entitled “It was good yesterday, it will be better tomorrow” on October 18 at the Maison de la Radio, from 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. In the company of visionary guests like Francis Fukuyama and Bill Gates, the editorial staff of L’Express invites you to explore the world of tomorrow. What will be the effects of artificial intelligence on our professions? What will youth look like in 2093? How will the fields of health, agriculture and creation evolve? What future for Europe, while the war in Ukraine is bogged down?
So many questions that we will address in the company of the best experts, in an afternoon marked by optimism and commitment. Reserve your places!
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May 1953. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud, two young visionary journalists bet on launching a new newspaper: L’Express. 70 years later, we invite you to rediscover its history by entering the Library of the first French news magazine.
Our series “They made L’Express”
What would L’Express be without its illustrious founders, famous editorialists, famous journalists? In 2023, our newspaper celebrates its 70th anniversary, an ideal opportunity to pay tribute to the people who gave this weekly a reason for being, an editorial line. At the origins, a legendary couple, Françoise Giroud and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, who inaugurated the first issue of the weekly on May 16, 1953, driven by “an anger”, as Giroud will tell it, the anger of seeing France according to them so poorly governed. Helped by senior civil servant Simon Nora, who will notably take charge of the Economy pages, the duo leads the charge against economic and diplomatic policy, and politics in general, led by the government. Over the years, they will be joined by high-quality writers, some of whom have agreed to tell us about their time spent in the editorial office alongside these unforgettable bosses.
Since 1953, L’Express welcomes a committed writer, François Mauriac, then, from 1955 to 1956, his best enemy Albert Camus. Nearly twenty years later, the philosopher Raymond Aron joined the editorial team, attracted by the ultraliberal thinking of the boss of the time Jimmy Goldsmith, shortly before Jean-François Revel, an associate professor of philosophy like Aron, took over the management of the newspaper. Giroud, Servan-Schreiber, Nora, Mauriac, Camus, Goldsmith, Aron, Revel: eight notable personalities to whom L’Express owes so much and whose story and life we wanted to tell within the editorial staff, so that readers understand our world of yesterday so precious for understanding that of tomorrow.
EPISODE 1 – Catherine Nay: “For Françoise Giroud, any woman who arrived at L’Express was a rival”
EPISODE 2 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the founder: “What if we created a newspaper?”
EPISODE 3 – Simon Nora, the “economist” of L’Express who wanted to stem the populist surge
EPISODE 4 – Albert Camus at L’Express: the passion for commitment
EPISODE 5 – François Mauriac, at L’Express, plunged a torch into the darkness of the human soul
EPISODE 6 – Raymond Aron, the committed spectator of L’Express
EPISODE 7 – Jimmy Goldsmith, an eccentric at the head of L’Express