Journalist and author Laurent Greilsamer died on Wednesday, November 8, at the age of 70. Having worked for Le Figaro and Le Quotidien de Paris, this former student of the Ecole supérieure de journalism (ESJ) in Lille joined Le Monde in 1977.
Editor, reporter, head of the Justice-Police department then senior reporter, he then held the positions of editor-in-chief and deputy editorial director within the daily from 2007 to 2011.
In 2014, Laurent Greilsamer, alongside Eric Fottorino, former director of Le Monde (2008-2010), launched Le 1. He held the position of editorial advisor within the weekly.
The native of Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) was also the author of around fifteen works, including biographies of René Char, Alfred Dreyfus, Nicolas de Staël and Hubert Beuve-Méry, the founder and first leader of Le Monde.