Henri Jules Louis Jeanson was a French writer and journalist.
18 Facts About Henri Jeanson
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Henri Jeanson was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics".
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Henri Jeanson was distinguished by the potency of his style and a taste for polemic.
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Henri Jeanson resigned from the Canard enchaine in 1937, in solidarity with Jean Galtier-Boissiere.
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Henri Jeanson was sentenced to 18 months in prison in July 1939, for publishing an article in Solidarite internationale antifasciste, a periodical founded in November 1938 by Louis Lecoin, in which he congratulated Herschel Grynszpan for his assassination of Ernst vom Rath, an official of the German embassy in Paris.
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Henri Jeanson was arrested in November 1939, at which time he had already joined his regiment in Meaux, for articles which had appeared in March and August 1939, and for having signed Louis Lecoin's tract "Paix immediate".
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Henri Jeanson's freedom was obtained by the lawyer and minister Cesar Campinchi.
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Henri Jeanson remained in Paris and in August 1940 was given the chief editorship of Aujourd'hui, an "independent" newspaper.
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Henri Jeanson was freed a few months later after the intervention of his friend Gaston Bergery, a neo-radical who had turned to the collaborationists through ultra-pacifism.
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Henri Jeanson continued to lie low until the liberation of France.
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Henri Jeanson's story is said to illustrate the contradictions and compromises of absolute pacifism: the willingness to seek an understanding with Germany to avoid war, transforming, after France's defeat, into a desire for proper coexistence, even offering to serve the Germans.
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Henri Jeanson resumed his journalistic calling, working for Le Crapouillot, le Canard enchaine, Combat and L'Aurore.
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Henri Jeanson left the editorship of le Canard enchaine in April 1947, following an article which was cut, on the subject of "Aragon, Elsa Triolet, Maurice Thorez and the communists".
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Henri Jeanson ultimately returned to le Canard, where he published articles under the pseudonym "Huguette ex-Micro" until 1970.
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Henri Jeanson abandoned cinema in 1965 to devote himself to polemical journalism and the editing of his memoirs, which were published under the title 70 Ans d'adolescence several months after his death.
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Henri Jeanson died in Equemauville, near Honfleur on 6 November 1970.
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Henri Jeanson wrote for the theatre, without much success despite it being his favourite artistic medium.
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Henri Jeanson was member of the Academie de l'Humour and of the Academie Rabelais.