Alyette Debray-Mauduy, deputy editor-in-chief of Le Figaro’s Art de Vivre desk, died accidentally on Monday 21 September in Paris, aged 57. She was killed in a cycling accident near the French National Assembly, struck by a lorry in what a police source cited by Le Figaro said appeared to be a blind-spot incident.
Within the Art de Vivre desk, she covered luxury hospitality and dining news in particular, two fields she followed closely in the pages of the daily paper. Her death prompted a wave of tributes from the press and across the industry.
Alexis Brézet, Le Figaro’s editorial director, said the whole Figaro family was in shock at the terrible news, mourning the loss of a luminous personality, a colleague loved by all, and a remarkable journalist to whom the paper would pay the tribute she deserved in its own pages. Together with Marc Feuillée, chief executive of the Figaro group, he offered condolences to Alyette Debray-Mauduy’s family, her husband and their two children.
The team at La Tribune de l’Hôtellerie sends its sincere condolences to her family, her loved ones and the Figaro editorial team.
At a glance by The Hospitality Tribune
Le Figaro journalist Alyette Debray-Mauduy dies in Paris cycling accident
Deputy editor-in-chief of Le Figaro’s Art de Vivre section, aged 57
Covered hospitality and gastronomy news for the daily
Died on 21 September in a collision with a truck near the French National Assembly
Survived by her husband and two children
