Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was the co-founder of L'Expansion and the founder of Psychologies and Radio Classique.
13 Facts About Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was born on 31 October 1937, in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber's father, Emile Servan-Schreiber, was a French journalist of Jewish-Prussian descent.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber first wrote for Echos, which had been co-founded by his father, followed by L'Express which had been founded by his brother Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber went on to found his own press company, L'Expansion, in 1967 with Jean Boissonnat.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber co-founded the magazine L'Expansion with Boissonnat in 1967 and Lire with Bernard Pivot in 1975.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber would remain a director of L'Expansion for 27 years, and expand it to several foreign editions.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was the owner of La Vie Eco, a Moroccan newspaper, from 1994 to 1997, having acquired a special exemption from that nation's foreign ownership rules via Moroccan prime minister Abdellatif Filali.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber took over Psychologies in 1997, and sold it to the Lagardere Group in 2008 having increased its circulation from 75,000 to 350,000 to become the second best-selling women's monthly in France.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was the author of several books and around twenty essays.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber served as the chairman of the French chapter of Human Rights Watch since 2007.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber married his first wife, Claude Sadoc, in 1957.
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Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber died from COVID-19 on 28 November 2020, at the age of 83.