Les Lettres Françaises

Les Lettres françaises were the Parti Communiste a français related literary magazine in France.

Founding year of publication was 1941, when founder joined Jacques and Jean Paulhan Decour on. It was initially a secret journal of the resistance movement. Staff have included Louis Aragon, François Mauriac, Claude Morgan, Edith Thomas, Georges Limbour, Raymond Queneau and Jean Lescure.

After liberation and Les Lettres françaises and 1972 were financed under the direction of Louis Aragon from the PCF. As Aragon longtime employee acted Pierre Daix. The high-quality se publication fell into the intricacies of the early Cold War, when they on the basis of false documents of the journalist and Soviet agent André Ullmann 's breakaway Soviet officer Viktor Kravchenko as American spy and his 1947 published in French book "I Chose Freedom " as designated disinformation.

The process Kravchenko was considered a " trial of the century ", it occurred about 100 witnesses, including Margarete Buber- Neumann, who set out the reality of the Soviet forced system described by Kravchenko ( Holodomor, the Gulag ) convincing. The magazine was subsequently sentenced in April 1949 for defamation. Similarly, designed 1951, the outcome of the proceedings, the David Rousset had brought against the magazine, Alexander Weissberg - Cybulski joined him as a witness to.

Les Letetres françaises related position against the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in August 1968, as a result it came to the notice of numerous subscriptions from institutions from the field of the Warsaw Pact. The magazine was heavily in deficit and had to be discontinued in 1972, but it currently appears again as a regular supplement of L' Humanité.