Philippe Alexandre

Philippe Alexandre (14 March 1932 – 31 October 2022) was a French journalist and writer. He notably worked as a columnist for RTL from 1969 to 1996 and presented several talk shows alongside fellow journalists Serge July and Christine Ockrent. In his book Ma tribu plus que française, Alexandre recounted the assimilation of his Jewish family and the horrors many of his compatriots faced in World War II.

Alexandre began his career in journalism in 1951 as an editor for the newspaper Combat. He then worked for several weeklies, such as Jours de France, Le Nouveau Candide, and Le Figaro littéraire. From 1969 to 1996, he was a columnist at RTL and spoke humorously on political news each morning for the radio station. He left the station following its merge with the German group Bertelsmann.

On television, he co-hosted the political show Le Débat on TF1 from 1989 to 1992 with Serge July and Michèle Cotta. He then hosted the France 3 shows À la une sur la 3 and Dimanche soir with Christine Ockrent and July. He then worked as a political columnist for BFM TV, France 3, and numerous magazines. Philippe Alexandre died in Le Touquet on 31 October 2022, at the age of 90.

He is scheduled to be buried at the Le Touquet-Paris Plage Communal Cemetery on 5 November 2022. Source: Article "Philippe Alexandre" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.