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.

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