Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber was born on 31 October 1937 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. His father, Émile Servan-Schreiber, was a French journalist of Jewish-Prussian descent. His mother was Denise Bresard. The Servan-Schreibers (up to 200 members) have a family reunion every five years.[1]

As a child Servan-Schreiber aspired to become a psychoanalyst but, being born into a family of journalists went into that profession.[2] He graduated from Sciences Po in 1960.[3]

Servan-Schreiber was a journalist.[4][5] He 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.[3][2] Having experience of reading American news magazines from a period spent teaching at Stanford University Servan-Schreiber worked with his brother to transform L'Express into a similar publication, the first of its kind in France.[2]

Servan-Schreiber went on to found his own press company, L'Expansion, in 1967 with Jean Boissonnat. He co-founded the magazine L'Expansion with Boissonnat in 1967 and Lire with Bernard Pivot in 1975.[3][2] Servan-Schreiber would remain a director of L'Expansion for 27 years, and expand it to several foreign editions.[6] He founded Radio Classique in 1982.[3] He was the owner of La Vie Éco, 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.[3][7] Servan-Schreiber took over Psychologies in 1997, and sold it to the Lagardère Group in 2008 having increased its circulation from 75,000 to 350,000 to become the second best-selling women's monthly in France.[2][3] He founded another magazine, Clés, in 2010.[3] At times the L'Expansion group also ran La Vie Financière, La Lettre de L’Expansion and La Tribune.[2]

During the 1970s Servan-Schreiber appeared frequently on the TF1 programme Questionnaire.[2] Servan-Schreiber was the author of several books and around twenty essays.[3][2] He served as the chairman of the French chapter of Human Rights Watch since 2007.[3] Servan-Schreiber was known by the initials JLSS.[6]

Servan-Schreiber was married twice. He married his first wife, Claude Sadoc, in 1957. They had four children; she is now married to a woman, former politician Françoise Gaspard.[8] In 1987, he married his second wife, Perla.[3]

He died on 28 November 2020 at the age of 83, from COVID-19.[9]

• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (1972). Le pouvoir d'informer. Paris: Robert Laffont. OCLC 829966.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (1973). L'Entreprise à visage humain. Paris: Robert Laffont. OCLC 253724937.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (1977). A mi-vie : l'entrée en quarantaine. France: Stock. ISBN 9782234005464. OCLC 3041952.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (1977). Questionnaire pour Demain. Paris: Ramsay. ISBN 9782859560232. OCLC 3390514.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (1983). L'Art du Temps. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 9782253035718. OCLC 471808221.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (1986). Le retour du courage. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 9782213016986. OCLC 13655205.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis; Servan-Schreiber, Perla (1990). Le Métier de patron. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 9782213024387. OCLC 21279971.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (1999). Le nouvel art du temps : contre le stress. Paris: Albin Michel. ISBN 9782226113870. OCLC 467970329.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (2002). Vivre Content. Paris: Albin Michel. ISBN 9782226135223. OCLC 469576579.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (2010). Trop vite! : pourquoi nous sommes prisonniers du court terme. Paris: Albin Michel. ISBN 9782226206145. OCLC 690864926.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (2012). Aimer (quand même) le XXIe siècle. Paris: Albin Michel. ISBN 9782226243805. OCLC 816606159.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (2014). Pourquoi les riches ont gagné. Paris: Albin Michel. ISBN 9782226254702. OCLC 880252331.
• Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Louis (2015). C'est la vie ! : essais. Paris: Albin Michel. ISBN 9782226312785. OCLC 908438581.