Le Crapouillot
| Frequency | Irregular |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jean Galtier-Boissière |
| First issue | August 1915 |
| Final issue | 1996 |
| Country | France |
| Based in | Paris |
| Language | French |
| OCLC | 504202990 |
Le Crapouillot was a French magazine started by Jean Galtier-Boissière as a satiric publication in France, during World War I.[1] In the trenches during World War I, the affectionate term for le petit crapaud, "the little toad" was used by French soldiers, the poilus, to designate small trench-mortars.
Muckraking and satirical period
In 1925, the magazine became a monthly.[2] From 1961 to 1964 it was published four issues per year.[2] Until its close in 1990 the frequency of the magazine was irregular.[2]
Political period
After France was liberated from the German occupation in 1944, the magazine took a stand against the purges conducted against collaborators among the nationalist intelligentsia, such as the trial and execution of Robert Brasillach. Throughout the Fourth and early French Fifth Republics, and until its creator's death in 1966, the publication gradually became a forum for articles, reports and editorials written by French nationalists, including ex-Vichy collaborators, Holocaust deniers, right-wing anarchists, and neo-fascists, culminating in its final years, into a magazine strictly of the Extreme Right. The nationalist journalist Roland Gaucher was its owner and chief editor between from 1991 to 1994.[3] The publication of Le Crapouillot continued until 1996.[2]
See also
- Je suis partout magazine
Notes
- ↑ "Le Crapouillot". AbeBooks. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Le Crapouillot". Trove. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ ."Ils avaient un camarade!" Archived 3 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine ("They had a comrade!"), REFLEX website, 12 August 2007 (in French)
Further reading
- Michael Barnes, 'Le Crapouillot', in Parenthesis; 17 (2009 Autumn), p. 29.
References
- Kaplan, Alice Yaeger: The collaborator: The trial & execution of Robert Brasillach, University Of Chicago Press; 2001, ISBN 978-0-226-42415-6
External links
- Crapouillot online in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF.
- Le Crapouillot; Paris OCLC 64226962; library search
- (in French) Website about Le Crapouillot