Combat (newspaper)
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| language | French |
| First edition | 1944 |
| attitude | 1974 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
Combat (German: Kampf ), subtitled Le Journal de Paris (German: Die Pariser Zeitung ), was an initially illegal newspaper that was founded during the Second World War as an organ of the resistance group Combat .
history
Combat was a Resistance newspaper whose production was directed by André Bollier. After the liberation of France, Combat was looked after by Albert Ollivier, Jean Bloch-Michel, Georges Altschuler and above all Albert Camus . Also contributed Jean-Paul Sartre , André Malraux , Emmanuel Mounier and Raymond Aron and Maurice Nadeau to this newspaper.
In August 1944, the Combat moved into the premises of the Intransigeant at 100 rue Réaumur. One year after it was founded, it was no longer any real competition for the major daily newspapers. Its circulation had already started to crumble and fell from over 185,000 copies in January 1945 to 150,000 in August of the same year. In the course of 1946, the publication, which did not allow itself to be absorbed by the game of the parties as the bearer of the French reconstruction, approached General de Gaulle , but without becoming the official voice of his movement.
True to its origins, it wanted to provide a platform for those who continued to believe that a left, non-communist popular movement could be created in France. In July 1948 Victor Fay, a militant Marxist , took over the helm of Combat . However, it did not prevent current information from becoming less important than popular topics.
With the arrival of Philippe Tesson in 1960, Henri Smadja (editor of Combat since 1950) believed that he had found a man he could direct at will. However, as the Tunisian regime played along badly, his personal situation worsened. It preferred to lose everything rather than give up its newspaper. In March 1974, Tesson founded Le Quotidien de Paris - the title is a reference to the subtitle of Combat .
Smadja committed suicide on July 14, 1974, and combat was finally stopped a month later.
literature
- Albert Camus: Between Hell and Reason: Essays from the Resistance Newspaper Combat, 1944-1947 . Translated by Alexandre de Gramont, Wesleyan University Press 1991, ISBN 0-819-55189-9 .