She was inspired by the diaries kept by her mother, Marie Picard Destelan, during the Second World War, her succinct notes on her day's activities, her meetings with a married man based on her father, Claude de Cambronne, an aircraft manufacturer, co-founder of Bordeaux-Aéronautique, the aryanized company of Marcel Dassault (ex-Bloch) ; Raphael Alibert, who promulgated the first Law on the status of Jews of October 1940 and René Hardy, suspected of being instrumental in the arrest of Jean Moulin and General Charles Delestraint, to write Les petits agendss rouges, in 2004.
Her sister, Beatrice de Cambronne, a stylist was married to the Belgo-Russian writer and scenarist André Couteaux, the father of Paul-Marie Coûteaux, French politician, and member of Reconquête, since 2022.
For Paris Match, from 1972 to 1983, she writes about nude beaches,[8] alcoholism[9] and interviews Georges Dumézil for Le Point[10] in 1984, after joining ELLE magazine, in 1983.
She is editor in chief adjunct from 1993 to 2008,[11] and interviews for the magazine : Lionel Jospin, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Édith Cresson, Georgina Dufoix, Michel Rocard or Françoise Fabius.
Listening to her, we are a little ashamed of our carelessness of being happy in the world, dressed in elegantly creased white linen and mainly busy choosing the day's beach according to the tavern and canopy.