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sold me a watch, but prevented me from finding out the time.’ In 1932 they
fell out and Bailby went off to start Le Jour.
2 Le Gringoire (1929–44): Conservative, anti-communist, nationalist, Catholic –
the most successful weekly newspaper of the far right, selling about 200,000
copies a week. Its most famous polemicist was Henri Béraud (1885-1958):
condemned to death in 1944 but pardoned by de Gaulle.
Candide (1924–44): Violent and polemical, this right-wing weekly was run by
the Action Française historian Jacques Bainville, and then by Pierre Gaxotte.
Its circulation was more than 500,000 copies in 1937.
Pierre Gaxotte (1895–1982): Maurrassian. After Jacques Bainville, he was the
historian of AF, and was for a time Maurras’ secretary. Elected to the Académie
Française in 1953, there he was ‘received’ by General Weygand and joined a
large number of former AF intellectuals.
Je suis partout (‘I am everywhere’, in other words, ‘I spy’): Right-wing, profascist
periodical, founded by Arthème Fayard in November 1930 and published
by him until 1936. Very AF. Editors were Pierre Gaxotte and Robert Brasillach.
Shut down in 1944.
3 Louis to René, 15 August 1934.
4 ibid.
5 Association document in letter, Louis to René, September 1935.
The programme continued:
2. To organise support of all kinds for the members of the Association.
3. To commemorate the tragic events of 6 February by appropriate ceremonies,
to propagate the spirit of sacrifice and patriotism and to participate in all
efforts made to re-establish public cleanliness and national honour.
We will realise this programme with energy and perseverance, under the
spiritual sign of bloody sacrifice, for the health and grandeur of France.
6 Pierre-Étienne Flandin (1889–1958): Conservative politician and deputy,
leader of the Alliance Démocratique; prime minister 1934–35, then for eight
weeks Pétain’s chief Minister in 1940. He was pro-Munich and an arch-appeaser
of Germany. Escaped to Algeria, sentenced to five years’ of dégradation nationale,
immediately suspended, but, like all Pétain’s former ministers, he remained
prohibited from standing for political office.
7 Achille Liénart, Cardinal of Lille, Arnal, p. 158.
8 François Mitterrand (1916–96): President of France 1981–95. He worked for
the Vichy state until 1943, when he joined the Resistance.
9 On the wall of Louis’ Madrid apartment ‘there was a photograph of eight men
marching down some street, dressed in raincoats and jackboots’ (John Booth,
former head of immigration at the Australian embassy in Madrid).
10 Louis to René, 8 August 1934.
11 Charles Trochu (1898–?): a descendant of the Napoleonic General Kléber,
and a grandson of General Trochu, military governor of Paris during the siege