cultivating his impertinence from politicians, he delivered more than 8,000 editorials from 1969 to 1996 to 1996. It died on October 31 at the age of 90 years.
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The pleated eyes, the rocky voice, the slow flow, he embodied, through his radio chronicles and his television programs, a certain image of the political journalist, cultivating his impertinence, even his insolence, vis-à-vis Politicians with whom he flattered himself to never “copy”. “Neither complacent nor conventional”, he had made a reputation for a gun. Philippe Alexandre died on October 31 at Touquet (Pas-de-Calais) at the age of 90. “With Philippe Alexandre, reacted Emmanuel Macron, the French press loses a fierce pen, a relentless investigator, a free voice. Feared and admired, he was for many French people one of the most familiar faces in political journalism.”
Philippe Alexandre was born in Paris on March 14, 1932 in a family of Jewish origin whose story he will tell in a more than French tribe book (Robert Laffont, 2017). After studying at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, an era when, already passionate about politics, he devours the newspapers daily, the bac in pocket, the one who defines himself as a “self-taught journalism” between 19 years as a freelance Combat. In 1957, Marcel Dassault hired him as editorial secretary at the Oise Libérée. “I saw, he will confide, how we bought a newspaper, a printing, and a headquarters of senator.” From 1959 to 1969, he collaborated on many newspapers, from days of France to “literary figaro”.
This is one of his first books – he will publish about twenty, including nine with his wife Béatrix de l’Aulnoit -, the Elysée in danger (Fayard 1969, reed. 2008), who will lead Jean Farran, director of the station to open the doors of RTL to him. From April 27, 1969 to November 6, 1996, Philippe Alexandre will deliver more than 8,000 morning political editorials of two minutes and thirty. The tooth hard, the pen -soaked pen, it spares no politics. Polemicist, he sets foot where it is not necessary, questioning the suicide of Robert Boulin (1920-1979) -which earned him a trial where he will be condemned -pinning the “Red billionaire”, Jean -Baptiste Doumeng (1919-1987), accused of not having paid taxes. He also crosses iron with Jean-Marie Le Pen and criticizes the government for not having prohibited the National Front: “We would have had three weeks of protests and we would no longer have heard. But, for tactical reasons, the Power made the short scale on Le Pen. “The legend has it that he had as many defamation trials as his books.
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