Discover the third episode of our anniversary series: The battles of L’Express. Xavier Yvon and Anne Marion, librarian at L’Express, tell you about seven decades of commitment to great causes that have transformed French society, with Anne Rosencher, deputy editorial director.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation and writing), Mathias Penguilly (writing), Charlotte Baris (editing), Jules Krot (directing) and Marion Galard (work-study).
Music and design: Emmanuel Herschon / Studio Torrent
Image credits: Jérémie Cambour / L’Express
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain / Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon : Hi Ann!
Anne-Marion : Hi Xavier!
Xavier Yvon : I would like you to listen to something. This is an excerpt from our interview with Christiane Collange, the sister of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and the last survivor of the founding team of L’Express.
Christiane Collange : “I remember a story, an anecdote. For example, at L’Express, we immediately went for the pill and for contraception, it was our fight. And one day, I was sent to see Pincus, in New York and I am doing an interview with Pincus, who is therefore the man who created the pill which did not yet exist in France. In my article I say: “Pincus told me that in Switzerland and England , there are already places where we are starting to find it.”
Anne-Marion : Well, it’s amazing. That doesn’t tell me anything as an interview. Let me look in the cardex…
For further
70 years of L’Express
Catherine Nay: “For Françoise Giroud, any woman who arrived at L’Express was a rival”
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the founder: “And if we created a newspaper?”