Laurence de Cambronne

Descendant of Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne and Paul Cottin on her father's side and of Ernest Picard-Destelan and Joseph Thebaud on her mother's side, she is a niece of rear admiral, François Picard-Destelan, former president of the International Monetary Fund, Jacques de Larosière, admiral of the United States Navy, Leo Hewlett Thebaud and American philanthropist, Louis A. Thebaud.

Her father Claude de Cambronne, is an aircraft manufacturer, co-founder of Bordeaux-Aéronautique and her sister, Beatrice de Cambronne, a stylist married to the Belgo-Russian writer André Couteaux.

Laurence de Cambronne was married to the French journalist and television producer[3][4][5] Marc Gilbert from 1973 to 1982,[6] and to the journalist Fabien Roland-Lévy, from 1987 to 2003.

For Paris Match, from 1972 to 1983, she writes about nude beaches,[7] alcoholism[8] and interviews Georges Dumézil for Le Point[9] in 1984, after joining ELLE magazine, in 1983.

She is editor in chief adjunct from 1993 to 2008,[10] and interviews for the magazine : Lionel Jospin, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Édith Cresson, Georgina Dufoix, Michel Rocard or Françoise Fabius.[11] in charge of the pages Vie Privée, C’est mon histoire, Une journée avec, inspired by the last page of The Sunday Times Magazine, One day in the life of and the Elle à Paris section of the magazine.[12]

She also participated in 1996 in the launch of the French television channel Téva.[13]

In 2015, during the European migrant crisis, she joins associations, in Leros, as a volunteer, to help creating shelters for Syrian women and children, during their Immigration to Greece.[14][15], mentioned in Emmanuel Carrère's novel, Yoga (2020):

I don't really care today for making my name stand out enough. everything that mattered to me, what I dreamed of, glory and mansions, love and wisdom, I don't even know what it is anymore. I turn in circles, either I am prostrate or I do not hold in place, I do not know where my place is. I have become a ghost that friends watch with concern. This is the start of what is called the refugee crisis. We cannot say that we hear much about it in Patmos, but hundreds, thousands of migrants from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia and especially Syria on fire by Bashar al-Assad flock every day to the Greek coasts. The peaceful Dodecanese Islands, not far from Turkey, collect them selectively. The most chic, like ours, are spared by what inhabitants and summer visitors agree without too much to consider as a scourge, the less distinguished like Leros or Lesbos take more than their share. Our friend Laurence de Cambronne, who was a journalist before living in Patmos for half of the year, has returned to work for a report in Leros. She comes to dinner at the house, she tells, she gets excited. She speaks of the courage of migrants, of the indifference of some, of the dedication of others, of an American historian who left everything to do there, she says, a wonderful job. Listening to her, we are a little ashamed of our carelessness of being happy in the world, dressed in elegantly creased white linen and mainly busy choosing the day's beach according to the tavern and canopy. (Emmanuel Carrère, Yoga, Éditions Gallimard, october 2020)

• Le Danger de naître : Entretiens avec Laurence de Cambronne, with Claude Sureau, Plon, 1993
• Votre premier mois avec bébé : Les 100 questions que se pose une mère dans les jours qui suivent la naissance de son enfant, Robert Laffont, 1998[16]
• Les petits agendas rouges, Plon, 2004
• Les plus belles histoires d'amour de Elle : C'est mon histoire, with Antoine Silber, Robert Laffont, 2006

• Gilles Verdiani, Mon métier de père, JC Lattès, 2012
• Marta de Tena, La garde alternée, JC Lattès, 2012
• Maryline Baumard, Vive la pension !, JC Lattès, 2012[17]
• François Reynaert and Vincent Brocvielle, Le Kit du 21e siècle, JC Lattès, 2013
• Anne Dufourmantelle and Laure Leter, Se trouver, JC Lattès, 2014

• Madame de Staël, la femme qui faisait trembler Napoléon, Allary editions, 2015[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]
• Je suis d'Alep, itinéraire d'un migrant ordinaire, avec Joude Jassouma, Allary Éditions, 2017[29]