Madeleine Chapsal

Madeleine Chapsal (1 September 1925 – 11 or 12 March 2024) was a French writer and the daughter of Robert Chapsal, son of the politician Fernand Chapsal, and of Marcelle Chaumont, who made dresses for Madeleine Vionnet.

[1] Madeleine Chapsal was born in Paris on 1 September 1925.

She married the French journalist and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber[2] in 1947 with whom she participated in the creation of the news magazine L'Express.

She was a member of the Prix Femina jury between 1981 and 2006.

Chapsal died in the night of 11 to 12 March 2024, at the age of 98.