Madeleine Chapsal

Madeleine Chapsal (born September 1, 1925 in Paris ) is a French journalist and writer.

Madeleine Chapsal, 1995

Life

Chapsal is the daughter of Marcelle Chaumont , a seamstress for haute couture of the fashion houses of Madeleine Vionnet . In 1945, at the age of twenty, Chapsal married the journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (JJSS). In May 1953, she founded the newspaper L'Express in collaboration with her husband and Françoise Giroud .

In 1960, Chapsal divorced her husband, but worked closely with him for a long time. Between 1981 and 2006 she was a member of the jury for the Prix ​​Femina .

reception

Her literary works showed her to be an important representative of French feminism. Her documentaries and non-fiction books were often created in collaboration with Frédérique Rossif . In addition, over the years children's books and some theater plays were created. Her work French writers intimate (Envoyez la petite musique) is an important contemporary document, as she interviewed important French writers and philosophers for this book.

Honors

• 2004: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 2008: Officer of the Legion of Honor
• 2011: Ordre national du Mérite

Works

As an author

Biographical

• L'Homme de la vie . Fayard, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-213-61745-7 ( autobiography ).
• Noces avec la vie . Fayard, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-213-61601-9 (autobiography).
• Journal d'hier et aujourd'hui . Fayard, Paris 2006/09 (Diaries)

1. 2006, ISBN 2-213-62982-X .
2. 2008, ISBN 978-2-213-63598-9 .
3. 2009, ISBN 978-2-213-64281-9 .

Children's books

• Alphabets . Fleurus, Paris 1971.
• Le poisson voyageur . Édition Fleurus, Paris 1972.
• Mimichat . Édition Fleurus, Paris 1972 (Magicalque; Vol. 4).
• Un anniversaire chez le dragons . Denoël, Paris 1973.
• Bzzi-Bzzi vole in the prairie . Nef-Chastrusse, Bordeaux 2009, ISBN 978-2-916104-86-7 .

Poetry

• Divine passion . Grasset, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-246-24731-4 .

Novels

• La maison de jade.roman . Grasset, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-246-00677-5 .
• La femme abandonée. D'apres une nouvelle d ' Honoré de Balzac . Fayard, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-213-02970-9 .
• Le foulard bleu . Fayard, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-213-59602-6 .
• Cet homme est marié . Paris 1998.
• La ronde des âges. Novel . Fayard, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-253-11268-2 .
• Le bonheur in le mariage. Novel . Fayard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-213-64278-9 .

Non-fiction

• Vérités sur les jeunes filles . Fayard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-213-60020-1 (reprint of the Paris 1960 edition).
• The festival of wild animals (“La fête sauvage”). Ullstein, Berlin 1977 (together with Frédérique Rossif).
• Learning to love (“Apprendre à aimer”). Turia + Kant, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85132-532-4 .
• Callas l'extrême . Lafont, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-253-10961-4 .
• French writer intimate ("Envoyez la petite musique"). Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88221-758-8 .
• Si je vous dis le mot passion . Le grand livre du mois, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7028-3142-7 .

Plays

• Un flingue sous les roses. Pièce de Théâtre . Gallimard, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-07-070411-4 .
• Quelques pas sur le terre. Pièce de Théâtre . Gallimard, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-07-071625-2 .
• Théâtre . Fayard, Paris 1988/89 (2 vol.).

1. En scene pour l'entracte . 1989, ISBN 2-213-60127-5 .
2. Combien de femme pour faire un homme? 1988, ISBN 2-213-60208-5 .

As editor

• Les plus belles lettres d'amour . Paris 1998.
• Les écrivains en personne . Union générale d'éditions, Paris 1973 (10/18; vol. 809).

Adaptations

• Hélène Misserly (Director): Une autre femme . 1982 (part of the Cinéma 16 series ).
• Nadine Trintignant (director): Das Jadehaus (“La maison de Jade”). 1988.
• Serge Leroy (Director): Une Saison de feuilles . 1989 (based on the novel of the same name).
• Édouard Molinaro (Director): La femme abandonnée . 1992 (based on the novel of the same name).
• Pierre Granier-Deferre (Director): La dernière fête . 1996.
• Caroline Huppert (Director): L'inventaire . 1998.

literature

• Catherine Laulhère-Vigneau (Ed.): Parisiennes. Carole Bouquet , Madeleine Chapsal, Marie Darrieussecq , Denis Grozdanovitch, Mireille Guillano, Dominique Mainard, Catherine Millet , Delphine de Vigan . Flammarion, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-08-120671-7 .
• Yves de Saint-Agnès: A Sexual Revolution. With interviews by Madeleine Chapsal (“Une révolution sexual”). Publishing house of the European library, Bonn 1966.
• Gilbert Tordjman: Le dialogue sexuel. Questions de Madeleine Chapsal . Pauvert, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7202-0062-X .