Francoise Giroud, 86; Writer Co-Founded Top French News Magazine
Francoise Giroud, 86, who co-founded one of France’s top news magazines when few women were in the journalism business, died Sunday in a hospital outside Paris. The cause was a head injury suffered in a fall.
After eight years of running France’s Elle magazine, Giroud co-founded L’Express newsweekly with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber in 1953.
Giroud also wrote several books, including some that were translated into English, such as “Marie Curie: A Life.” One of her novels, “Le Bon Plaisir,” became a 1984 movie starring Catherine Deneuve.
She served in the French cabinet in the mid-1970s and wrote a weekly column for Le Nouvel Observateur from 1983 until her death.
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