L'Événement du jeudi (Thursday Event) is a French weekly magazine of general news and centrist opinion, founded in 1984 by Jean-François Kahn.
When he founded Thursday Event 1984, Jean-François Kahn wanted "a media that hits as much on the left as on the right", to overcome the left-right divide" via "a free, dissonant space.
Many of the contributors came from the weekly Les Nouvelles littéraires, whose director from 1975 to 1983 was Philippe Tesson, who at the same time founded Le Quotidien de Paris.
He called the idol of youth a "soft singer", criticizing his lack of musical culture compared to Étienne Daho or Les Rita Mitsouko.
[8] That same year, Jean-François Kahn, buoyed by the success of Marianne, the magazine he had founded in 1997, took over L'Événement, entrusting its management to Maurice Szafran.