Philippe Alexandre

Biography

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 littérai…