Christiane Collange


Christiane Collange was a French journalist and author.

Early life

Christiane Collange was born as Christiane Servan-Schreiber on 29 October 1930. Her father, Émile Servan-Schreiber, was a Jewish journalist and author. Her mother, Denise Brésard, was Roman Catholic. Her paternal father, Joseph Schreiber, was a Jewish-Prussian immigrant. She had two brothers, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, and two sisters, Brigitte Gros and Bernadette Gradis. The Servan-Schreiber family have a family reunion every five years.
Collange graduated from Sciences Po.

Career

Collange was a journalist. She was the editor of Madame Express, a supplement of L'Express. She became the editor-in-chief of Le Jardin des Modes in 1970.
Collange was the author of many books. In her first book, Madame et le management, published in 1969, she argued that women should run their households like a business.
Collange served on the honorary committee of the Association pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité, a pro-euthanasia organization.

Personal life

Collange married and divorced three times. With one of her husbands, journalist and author Jean Ferniot, she had a son, Vincent Ferniot. She died on 24 October 2023, at the age of 92, five days shy of her 93rd birthday.