L'Express

is a French weekly news magazine headquartered in Paris. The weekly stands at the political centre-right in the French media landscape and has a lifestyle supplement, L'Express Styles, and a job supplement, Réussir. Founded in 1953 by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud, L'Express would be considered France's first American-style news weekly. L'Express is one of the three major French news weeklies alongside L'Obs and Le Point. History and profile was co-founded in 1953 by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, future president of the Radical Party, and Françoise Giroud, who had earlier edited Elle and went on to become France's first minister of women's affairs in 1974 and minister of culture in 1976. L'Express first issue was released on Saturday 16 May 1953, at the corner of the end of the Indochina War and the Algerian War which was about to break out. It was founded as a weekly supplement to the newspaper Les Échos. The magazine was supportive of the policies of Pierre Mendès-France in Indochina and, in general, had a left-of-centre orientation. The magazine opposed the Algerian War, and especially the use of torture. In March 1958, as a result of an article of Jean-Paul Sartre reviewing the book La Question by Henri Alleg, the magazine was prevented from being published by the French Government. In order to resume publication, had to print a new issue without the incriminated article. François Mauriac was a regular contributor with his Bloc-Notes column but left when Charles De Gaulle returned to power. In 1964, L'Express was modelled on the US magazine Time and the German magazine Der Spiegel.