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Christiane Collange, in November 2010, in Paris BRUNO CHAROY/PASCO
It wasn’t always easy being the fourth of Emile Servan-Schreiber’s five children, as was the journalist and essayist Christiane Collange. Christiane Collange died on October 24, in Saint-Valery-en-Caux (Seine-Maritime), a few days before her 93rd birthday, we learned The world with his family. Three elders, one of whom, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, would be a great journalist, founder of L’Express, and try his hand at politics. A cadet, Jean-Louis, journalist and essayist. And even an older sister, Brigitte Gros, senator. Jean-Jacques was born in 1924, Brigitte in 1925, Bernadette in 1928, Christiane, the fourth, on October 29, 1930, and the last son, Jean-Louis, in 1937.
What to do after completing your course at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris in 1951? Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud create L’Express in 1953, and, quite naturally, Christiane joined. She is 23 years old and has a zest for life that she will always keep. She took the pseudonym Collange and was immediately propelled to the management of Madame Expresswhere Françoise Giroud recommends that he “not to do women’s journalism”. She remained there until 1969.
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Christiane Collange will also be editor-in-chief of Garden of Fashionsand columnist in various media, including Europe 1 from 1970, but also Elle, and on television in the show “Télématin” and on the LCI channel. She published her first book in 1961, The Frenchwoman of today (Julliard). Twenty followed, some of which made her famous. For example Madam and the management. An organized woman is worth two (Editions Tchou, 1969), where she attempts to apply managerial methods to “the family business”. Or We mothers-in-law (Fayard, 2001) where, with great humor, she explores “mother-in-law, daughter-in-law” relationships.
“Private life and familiologist”
More serious, for this woman who had joined the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity, was the “second life of women” (title of her work published by Laffont, in 2005): old age, often as a single woman. It’s for The Game of Seven Families. For harmonious cohabitation between generations (Laffont, 2011) than Christiane Collange, who defined herself as “private life and familiologist”, had given an interview to Mondelooking back on his journey and seeing in this book “the culmination of all [sa] reflection on family relationships.
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“In these relationships there is manifested both a desire for independence and increasingly strong relationships of dependence, she remarked. With an individual desire for autonomy and relationships of dependence which increase between the three generations of adults. At 50-60 years old, you can help your elderly parents, but they must admit that you are not just their child, that you also have a life of your own. Likewise, we are not just a kind grandmother, we have our own life, our friends, our loves. In fact, everyone claims their independence and everyone needs everyone. »
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