The journalist Jean-François Kahn, founder of the weekly “Marianne”, died this Thursday at the age of 86. He was also a polemicist and committed to the center and had supported the candidacy of François Bayrou for the presidential election in 2007 and 2012.
Founder of Thursday Event and of Mariannejournalist Jean-François Kahn died at the age of 86, his entourage announced to AFP on Thursday, confirming information from Point. Son of the philosopher Jean Kahn, Jean-François Kahn was also a polemicist, committed to the center. He died Wednesday, said his wife Rachel Assouline-Kahn.
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The press man supported François Bayrou’s presidential candidacy in 2007 and 2012, saying he was “convinced that he was the man France needed.”
-“Jean-François Kahn was a giant and a rare man”
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.
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“Jean-François Kahn was a giant and a rare man. The incredible creativity which animated him, his audacity, made him found real period newspapers, Thursday’s Event, Marianne. He embodied ‘revolutionary centrism’, humanism and loyalty. We loved him,” reacted Prime Minister François Bayrou on the social network
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