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Combat (French for "fight") was a French newspaper created during the Second World War. Originally a clandestine newspaper of the Resistance, it was headed by Albert Ollivier, Jean Bloch-Michel, Georges Altschuler and, most of all, Albert Camus. Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, Emmanuel Mounier, and then Raymond Aron and Pierre Herbart also contributed to it. Its production was directed by André Bollier. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
Clandestine is an adjective meaning that its reference is something secret or guerrilla in nature. ...
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Albert Camus (pronounced ) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries of absurdism. ...
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (IPA: or or ) (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ...
André Malraux, French author, adventurer, and statesman André Malraux (November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French author, adventurer and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics and culture during his lifetime. ...
Emmanuel Mounier (philosophe français 1905-1950) Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French personalist movement, and founder and director of Esprit, the magazine which is the organ of the movement. ...
Raymond Aron (March 14, 1905 — October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. ...
In August 1944, Combat took the headquarters of L'Intransigeant, 100 Rue Réaumur in Paris, while Albert Camus became its editor in chief. The newspaper, however, passed from 185,000 exemplaries in January 1945 to 150,000 in August of the same year: it wasn't able to rival with others established newspapers (the Communist daily L'Humanité was publishing at the time 500,000 issues). During 1946, Combat was opposed to the "game of the parties" claiming to rebuild France, and thus got closer to Charles de Gaulle without, however, becoming its official voice. The Editor in chief is a publications primary editor. ...
LHumanité (Humanity), formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF), was the only French newspaper owned by a political party. ...
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( ) (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. ...
Loyal towards its origins, Combat tried to become the place of expression for those who believed in creating a left wing, non-communist, popular movement in France. In July 1948 (more than a year after the May 1947 crisis and the expulsion of the Communist ministers from the government), Victor Fay, a Marxist activist, took over Combat 's direction, but he failed to stop the newspaper's evolution towards more popular subjects and less political information. In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word...
The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. ...
Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ...
Philippe Tesson became editor in chief from 1960 to 1974. Henri Smadja originally thought Tesson could be a perfect puppet-editor but Smadja's situation, in part because of the Tunisian regime, got worse. In March 1974, Philippe Tesson created Le Quotidien de Paris (1974-1996), which he originally conceived as the successor of Combat.
During the May 1968 crisis, Combat supported with enthousiasm the estudiantine movement, through the signatures of the likes of Jacques-Arnaud Penent. May 1968 poster: Be young and shut up. ...
Henri Smadja committed suicide on July 14, 1974, and Combat definitively ceased to be edited the following month. July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
References - Albert Camus's articles in Combat were re-published in French under the title Actuelles (Folio Gallimard)
Albert Camus (pronounced ) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries of absurdism. ...
Éditions Gallimard is the second most important French publisher, and probably the most respected. ...
See also The History of France from 1914 to the present, includes the later years of the Third French Republic (1871-1941), the Vichy Regime (1940-1944), the years after Libération (1944-1946), the French Fourth Republic (1946-1958) and the French Fifth Republic (since 1958) and also includes World War...
The Fourth Republic existed in France between 1946 and 1958. ...
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