This is not exactly a biography of this woman journalist, writer, and minister. We delve into the world of press, editorial boards, and journalists. The author takes us into the ‘marble’ where everything is decided about a newspaper’s content. They rewrite the article, rearrange it: cuts, too long! Thus, we find ourselves at L’Express.
The turbulent political life at the end of the Fourth Republic, decolonization, the Algerian War, De Gaulle, JJSS, the entire behind-the-scenes of political life where the press and power intermingle. Christine Ockrent reveals to us the private lives of these opinion-makers, those who hold the reins, who decide.
This book is written like a novel and reads like an album of memories. The work of a journalist with richly documented interviews, testimonies, and the craft of a woman writer with the art of juggling words and phrases.
Françoise Giroud (1916-2003) traversed the 20th century with pen in hand. She will remain the icon of French journalism with that fervor to exist! This could be the dedication of this biography written with the passion for this profession: ‘journalist’.
