Jean-François Kahn, co-founder of the weekly “Marianne”, has died

The journalist and essayist Jean-François Kahn died at the age of 86, we learned on Thursday, January 23, The World from one of his relatives, confirming the information from Point. Brother of the chemist Olivier Kahn and the geneticist Axel Kahn, he created Thursday Event in 1984, then the weekly Mariannein 1997, of which he remained the director until 2007. He continued to collaborate occasionally on Marianne by publishing columns. He also published occasional articles for the weekly The Point and provided political columns for the Belgian daily The evening.

After a degree in history, he worked in postal sorting, then in the printing press, before turning to journalism. Jean-François Kahn began, without having dreamed of it or experienced the sacred fire, a career of more than forty-five years, which, Paris-presse au Mondepassing through L’Express, L’Obs et Literary Newswould lead him to cover the main conflicts on the planet (the Algerian war, Vietnam, the Ben Barka affair, the “Prague Spring”, the fall of Allende, etc.).