Alyette Debray-Mauduy

Alyette Debray-Mauduy was a French journalist who became a familiar voice of lifestyle and golf coverage at Le Figaro. She died in Paris on 21 September 2026 at the age of 57 after a heavy goods vehicle struck her bicycle near the Pont de la Concorde.

Born on 5 March 1969, she came from a family active in French public life. She was the granddaughter of Georges Debray, a former secretary of the Conference of Barristers of the Paris Bar, and of the politician Janine Alexandre-Debray, and a cousin of the writer Laurence Debray. After studying at Paris-Pantheon-Assas University she joined Le Figaro, where she rose to become deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper's Art de vivre (art of living) service. Her reporting ranged across design, travel, gastronomy and tables of celebration, and she wrote with particular regularity about golf: courses, destinations, equipment, competitions and the changing practice of the game in France.

Over many years her presence on courses and at events made her a well-known figure in the French golf community. The French Golf Federation remembered her as a journalist who told the sport's many facets with curiosity and passion. Colleagues at Le Figaro described a luminous personality and a much-loved peer. Editorial director Alexis Brezet said the paper's family was mourning a remarkable journalist to whom the newspaper would pay the tribute she deserved. Writer Anne Fulda later published a personal homage under the title Bonjour tristesse.

She was married to Jean-Philippe Mauduy. The couple had two children, Alexia and Thomas. Away from the newsroom she was known among friends and readers for warmth and curiosity about the places and craft of everyday living that her pages covered.

On the morning of 21 September 2026, while cycling near Place de la Concorde and the National Assembly, she was hit by a truck. Police sources cited a blind-spot collision; the driver tested negative for alcohol and drugs. The Paris prosecutor opened an inquiry for involuntary homicide, assigned to the judicial traffic-accident unit. Ambulance access was slowed by security measures linked to Pope Leo XIV's visit to the Concorde area. Le Figaro, Paris Match, Le Parisien and the French Golf Federation announced her death the same day. She was 57.