Founder of the magazine “Marianne”, Jean-François Kahn is dead

Founder of Thursday’s Event and of Mariannejournalist Jean-François Kahn died at 86announced this Thursday, January 23, 2025, the magazine Marianne on X.

Son of the philosopher Jean Kahn, Jean-François Kahn was also polemicistengaged in the center. He died on Wednesday said his wife Rachel Assouline-Kahn.

A centrist

The press man had brought his support for the candidacy of François Bayrou for the presidential election in 2007 then 2012, saying he was “convinced that he was the man France needed”.

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 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.

Jean-François Kahn was also the brother of the geneticist doctor Axel Kahn, who died in 2021.

Source: AFP.

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