The press man supported François Bayrou's presidential candidacy in 2007 and 2012, saying he was “convinced that he was the man France needed”.
On a MoDem list in 2009
He ran for the 2009 European elections on a MoDem list but without taking the party card. He will resign as soon as he is elected to resume writing and the debates he loves so much.
Jean-François Kahn was also a regular at the literary meetings Ideas lead the world where he visited three times in 2015, 2016 and 2022. His visit in 2015 gave rise in our columns to a beautiful cross-interview with his brother Axel Kahn on the theme of siblings orchestrated by our colleague Renée Mourgues. In 2022, he spoke at length on the stage of the Alfred De Vigny auditorium at the Palais Beaumont on a theme that fit him like a glove: “A life of commitment”.
-“A rare man”
“Jean-François Kahn was a giant and a rare man. The incredible creativity that animated him, his audacity, made him found real period newspapers, L'Événement du Jeudi, Marianne. He embodied “revolutionary centrism”, humanism and loyalty. We loved him,” reacted Prime Minister François Bayrou on the social network
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