Geneviève Tabouis
Geneviève Tabouis , right Geneviève Lequesne (born September 23, 1892 in Paris , † September 22, 1985 ) was a left-wing French journalist.
Tabouis had access to diplomatic circles through her uncles Jules and Pierre Paul Cambon . Jules took her to the Madrid wedding of Alfonso XIII at the age of 14 . where she witnessed a bloody Los Solidarios bomb attack . Subsequently, she dealt with Egyptology and represented two provincial newspapers at the League of Nations as a journalist between the world wars . Around 1929 she became the foreign editor of the left-wing daily L'Œuvre . In her home she met a large number of politicians and ambassadors. Tabouis made the Hoare-Laval Pact public. Prepared by informants, she also predicted the German remilitarization of the Rhineland , the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland , so that Adolf Hitler said in a radio address: "... and Madame Tabouis, the wisest of women, knows what I'm going to do before I even know. " Your predictions of an invasion of England between August 15 and 20, 1940 and that Hitler was dissatisfied with the Blitzkrieg in France, however, did not apply.
When the Wehrmacht conquered Paris , Tabouis, who was close to the Popular Front Léon Blums and the Spanish Frente Popular , fled to Bordeaux. Her husband, a radio director, stayed in Paris, as did her two children, although her son had been drafted into the French army. The Vichy government issued an arrest warrant for Tabouis in August 1940, but it had already exiled to the United States via London. Together with the allied propagandists Lord Snell , Henry Wickham Steed , Richard Crossman , Herbert Morrison and Brigadier General AC Temperley of the British War Department, she published a book and from 1942 to 1945 a French-language propaganda journal in New York. In addition, other propaganda, political books by her appeared. In They Called Me Cassandra from 1942 she repeated an interview with the late German ambassador Roland Köster , who allegedly confirmed and predicted political murders of his government in other European countries ( Louis Barthou , Alexander I. [Yugoslavia] , Ion Duca , Engelbert Dollfuss et al.) .
Tabouis befriended Eleanor Roosevelt in the United States . After the war she returned to France and wrote foreign policy articles for various daily newspapers: La France libre (1945–1949), l'Information (1949–1956) and Paris-Jour (from 1959).
For a long time, Tabouis was thought of as a Soviet agent in France .
Works
- Perfidious Albion - entente cordiale . Butterworth, London 1938
- Blackmail or war . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1938
- Lord Snell : New tyrannies for old . G. Allen & Unwin, London 1939
- They Called Me Cassandra . Charles Scribners's Sons, New York 1942
- as publisher: La Victoire: Journal Français d'Amérique . Our Paris Corp., New York (January 12, 1942– August 25, 1945)
Web links
- Newspaper article about Geneviève Tabouis in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
References
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tabouis, Geneviève |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lequesne, Geneviève (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1985 |