Lifting Skirts No More

You all remember my article on the journalist who said that all DSK did was to "lift her skirt"? Well, he now has to lift himself up and retire from journalism. This short article appears in Le Point:

In an internal e-mail to the weekly news magazine Marianne, CEO Maurice Szafran, announced to the editorial staff that Jean-François Kahn, 73, will publish his last entry this week and will bring to a close "all journalistic activity". Maurice Szafran added: "I'm counting on you not to leak this information before the paper comes out." On that point he didn't quite succeed. A meeting is to be held on Friday during which the retirement of J.-F. Kahn will be at the center of the conversation.

According to the first leaks, Kahn's remarks about "a lifting of skirts" ("un troussage de domestique") did him in. His words, at the very least unfortunate, concerning a young chamber maid, the alleged victim in the DSK affair, caused an uproar at every meeting of the staff of Marianne.

Note: Jean-François Kahn and Maurice Szafran were co-founders of Marianne in 1997.