Van wie was Catherine Nay?

Catherine Nay (Tours, 1 januari 1943) is een Frans journaliste en schrijfster.

Nay werd bekend als politiek journaliste voor l'Express. Vanaf 1966 schreef ze er over de Franse politiek en met name de kopstukken van de rechtse partijen maar ze vertrok er omdat ze het steeds meer oneens was met de links-liberale lijn van het blad. Vanaf 1975 werd ze politiek commentator van radiozender Europe 1.

In 1984 schreef ze een boek over François Mitterrand, Le noir et le rouge. In 2020 verscheen het eerste deel van haar memoires onder de titel Souvenirs, souvenirs.

Albin Chalandon (French pronunciation: [albɛ̃ ʃalɑ̃dɔ̃]; 11 June 1920 – 29 July 2020) was a French politician and minister.

Between 1968 and 1972, he was Minister of Public Works. He gave his name to the inexpensive single-family homes known as "chalandonnettes", of which around 65,000 were built between 1970 and 1972 and which became a byword for poor construction quality. And from 1986 until 1988, he was Minister of Justice.

Between 1967 and 1968, he was a member of the Union for the New Republic, then between 1968 and 1976 he was a member of the Union of Democrats for the Republic and finally from 1986 until 1988 he was a member of the Rally for the Republic.

Chalandon died aged 100 in July 2020. Éric Dupond-Moretti described his death as depriving France of one of its "Liberation fighters" and "the Republic one of its great servants".