He will succeed less brilliantly in the press

Drawing, published in "Le Figaro" of June 11, 1974, is signed Jacques Faizant. Newly elected President of the Republic, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing stands, sitting against a journalist in which he explained his projects. But the central character, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: tie and hair in the wind, grin, square leg, he's playing leapfrog, both hands on the skull of the new President! Unfazed, he continues: "in my new policy, any needed... except for the maintenance of the Government of the Minister of reforms." "jjss" has not been appointed since ten days that this already is dismissed from his post "turlupin", for taking a public position against nuclear testing decided by his Government.

Inventive but untenable, near Mitterrand but Minister of Giscard, agitator of sometimes whimsical ideas, supporter of the outspoken whatever it costs, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, died at Fécamp on the night of Monday to Tuesday at the age of eighty-two years, has followed a path out of the ordinary, marked by double passion of the press and politics. A double common passion to the family of Schreiber, Prussian Jews attached to Paris to escape anti-Semitism (1). When Jean-Jacques was born in February 1924, her aunt, Suzanne Crémieux, is to admit women to the radical party it became Vice-President , whereas his uncle Robert and his father Emile lead ensemble "Les echos", the journal founded by Robert.

There is a clear will to integrate into French society. Emile also married a Catholic, Denise Brésard. And, to the birth of their first son, Jean-Jacques, Emile adds to this name of Servan. Emile and his brother Robert will be same for all their children, making it easier to the francization of the civil State. Called short Servan during the war, they will officially take the double name in 1952.

Jean-Jacques therefore grew up in the "voices", "bakery" which works a large part of the family. At the age of nine, he published his first article, the account of a trip to London! Good studies: the lycée Janson-de-Sailly, and Polytechnic. The entrance exam, however, he flees the STO, learned to fly and left for the United States. After the war, he married the future novelist Madeleine Chapsal and hesitation on the choice of a career. He began by selling planes to the Brazil, then opted for journalism. It has the meaning of the formula and, at the age of twenty-four satisfies the severe Hubert Beuve-Méry to publish his major analyses of international policy in the columns of the "world". He met then two people who deeply seduced: the radical MP Pierre Mendès France, and a young journalist, Françoise Giroud, who soon became his companion. Together, they decide to create a log. This will be "The Express". A great success.

Launched in 1953 as a supplement of "Echoes", the weekly soon took its independence. Pierre Viansson-bridged, Simon Nora, Jean Daniel, François Mauriac, and many others are regular sign. Under the leadership of its two founders, the journal multiplies the fighting, says Mendès France, denounces torture in Algeria. Then recalled as a reserve lieutenant-Aviator, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber is of Algeria with a series of articles which earned him to be charged to "undermine the morale of the army."

In 1965, "The Express" is also staged the candidacy-mystery of Gaston Defferre, "Mr X", the presidential election. It is a fiasco. But all, remarried a few years with Sabine de Fouquières, bounces quickly. With "The American challenge", he began a career as an essayist to success. And in 1969, he released "The Express" to engage fully in the policy. Its major causes: Europe, and the modernization of the France.

He will succeed less brilliantly in the press. Halfway through the left and right, he became patron of the radical party, with the hope of recreating a party nine former label. In 1970, he was elected MP in Nancy. However, when he will venture to defy Bordeaux Jacques Chaban-Delmas, then Prime Minister, it is the failure. After his lightning passage to the Government, Adviser to Giscard d'Estaing to participates in the creation of his party, the UDF. In 1979, however, it presents its own list to the European, who harvest less than 2 of the vote. And a few years later, he became one of unofficial advisers to the new President François Mitterrand, placing at the head of the World Centre information technology and human resources.

Without obtaining the success up to its ambitions, he renounces the policy at the end of the 1980s, while continuing to write, including two volumes of memories. Reaches of brain degeneration that affected his memory, JJSS shared his retirement between his home in Neuilly and the family home of Veulettes-sur-Mer, Normandy. JJSS is the father of four boys, born of his marriage with Sabine de Fouquières: David, Neuropsychologist who signed the best-selling "Cure", Emile, Franklin, who worked in the IOC, and Edouard.