Yvonne Baby Death – Yvonne Baby French Journalist, critic and Novelist passed away on Wednesday, 3rd of August, 2022 at the age of 90. She was the winner of the Interallié prize in 1967. She was born on the 18th of August, 1931 at Touquet-Paris-Plage to historian and political activist Jean Baby and Ruta Assia. She directed the cultural service of the newspaper Le Monde from 1970 to 1985, after which she became a film critic. In 1975, she traveled to Copenhagen to interview Paul Pavlowitch on the mystery of Émile Ajar. She was vice-president of the jury of the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
SNBC13.com reporting – She was well-known in the cultural sphere. She invited young people who would help her establish the reputation of this new service, including Claire Devarrieux (currently a journalist at Liberation) and Hervé Guibert, who left The World when The World parted ways with Yvonne Baby. She also invited well-known figures in cultural journalism, like Michel Cournot and André Fermigier.
She was in charge of penning the piece about Marilyn Monroe’s passing in 1962. She criticized La Métamorphose des woodlouse in 1965 while she was still a film critic, calling it a subpar movie. She was selected by Jacques Fauvet in 1971 to establish and oversee the cultural section of the daily Le Monde. As the daily newspaper’s first female department head, she successfully unites a group of individuals with strong personalities by combining the entertainment and arts departments.
In 1975, while the French press was wondering about the mysterious Émile Ajar, Yvonne Baby went to interview Paul Pavlowitch in Copenhagen, whom Romain Gary had asked to endorse the identity. André Fontaine, who became director of Le Monde in 1985, criticized him for his elitism. In 1986, he was forced to leave both his function as department head and the newspaper.
Several members of his team, in particular Claire Devarrieux and Hervé Guibert, resigned following this decision by the management of Le Monde. She then devoted herself to writing. She would be greatly missed.
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