In memoriam Olivier Todd
He was himself, without labels, himself and no one else. With a French first name and an English last, Olivier Todd had not only been shaped by two cultures whose codes, languages and greatest authors he mastered so superbly. A pillar of France Observateur, which became Le Nouvel Observateur, a great reporter for the BBC, number 2 at L’Express, a biographer of Camus, Brel and Malraux, he was also related by marriage to a trio of graduates of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Aron, Sartre and Nizan, who were to embody three of the great currents of the post-war French intelligentsia.
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