Combat (newspaper)

Combat ( German: combat ), subtitles, Le Journal de Paris ( German: The Paris newspaper ), was a first illegal newspaper, which was founded during the Second World War as an organ of the Resistance group Combat.

History

Combat was a newspaper of the Resistance, the production of André Bollier was conducted. After the liberation of France Combat by Albert Ollivier, Jean Bloch -Michel, Georges Altschuler and especially by Albert Camus was supervised. Also contributed Jean- Paul Sartre, André Malraux, Emmanuel Mounier as well as Raymond Aron and Maurice Nadeau contributed to this newspaper.

In August 1944, the Combat referred the rooms of Intransigeant in the Rue Reaumur 100 One year after its formation, it was for the big newspapers no real competition more. Its circulation had already begun to crumble and fell over 185,000 copies in January 1945 to 150,000 in August of the same year. During the year 1946 approached the publication that did not let themselves to be taken from the game by the parties as a carrier of the French reconstruction, to General de Gaulle, but without being the official voice of his movement.

True to their origins, they wanted to give a platform to those who continued to believe that you could create a left non-Communist popular movement in France. In July 1948, took over Victor Fay, a militant Marxist, the management of the Combat. However, it did not prevent current information against popular themes became less important.

With the arrival of Philippe Tesson in 1960 believed Henri Smadja ( editor of Combat since 1950) a man to have found that he could draw at will. Then he played along the Tunisian regime evil, but worsened his personal situation. It preferred to prefer to lose everything than to give up his newspaper. In March 1974, Tesson Le Quotidien de Paris - the title is an allusion to the subtitle of Combat - as his successor.

On 14 July 1974, Smadja took his own life, and Combat was a month later finally ceased.