Laurence de Cambronne

Descendant of Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne and Paul Cottin on her father's side and of Ernest Picard-Destelan and Joseph Thebaud on her mother's side, she is a niece of rear admiral, François Picard-Destelan, former president of the International Monetary Fund, Jacques de Larosière, admiral of the United States Navy, Leo Hewlett Thebaud and American philanthropist, Louis A. Thebaud.

Her father Claude de Cambronne, is an aircraft manufacturer, co-founder of Bordeaux-Aéronautique and her sister, Beatrice de Cambronne, a stylist married to the Belgo-Russian writer André Couteaux.

Laurence de Cambronne was married to the French journalist and television producer[3][4][5] Marc Gilbert from 1973 to 1982,[6] and to the journalist Fabien Roland-Lévy, from 1987 to 2003.

Journalist for Paris Match from 1972 to 1983, she writes an article in Le Point[7] in 1984, after joining ELLE magazine, in 1983.

She is editor in chief adjunct from 1993 to 2008,[8] and interviews for the magazine : Lionel Jospin, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Édith Cresson, Georgina Dufoix, Michel Rocard or Françoise Fabius.[9] in charge of the pages Vie Privée, C’est mon histoire, Une journée avec, inspired by the last page of The Sunday Times Magazine, One day in the life of and the Elle à Paris section of the magazine.[10]

She also participated in 1996 in the launch of the French television channel Téva.[11]

In 2015, during the European migrant crisis, she joins associations, in Leros, as a volunteer, to help creating shelters for Syrian women and children, during their Immigration to Greece.[12][13]

• Le Danger de naître : Entretiens avec Laurence de Cambronne, with Claude Sureau, Plon, 1993
• Votre premier mois avec bébé : Les 100 questions que se pose une mère dans les jours qui suivent la naissance de son enfant, Robert Laffont, 1998[14]
• Les petits agendas rouges, Plon, 2004
• Les plus belles histoires d'amour de Elle : C'est mon histoire, with Antoine Silber, Robert Laffont, 2006

• Gilles Verdiani, Mon métier de père, JC Lattès, 2012
• Marta de Tena, La garde alternée, JC Lattès, 2012
• Maryline Baumard, Vive la pension !, JC Lattès, 2012[15]
• François Reynaert and Vincent Brocvielle, Le Kit du 21e siècle, JC Lattès, 2013
• Anne Dufourmantelle and Laure Leter, Se trouver, JC Lattès, 2014

• Madame de Staël, la femme qui faisait trembler Napoléon, Allary editions, 2015[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
• Je suis d'Alep, itinéraire d'un migrant ordinaire, avec Joude Jassouma, Allary Éditions, 2017[27]