14 Facts About Roland Laudenbach

Roland Laudenbach was a French writer, editor, journalist, literary critic and scenarist.

Roland Laudenbach had right-wing political beliefs aligned with the Action Francaise.

Roland Laudenbach edited or contributed to various literary and political magazines, wrote several novels, and wrote scripts and screenplays for numerous films.

Roland Laudenbach was born on 20 October 1921 in Paris.

Roland Laudenbach's parents were Henri Laudenbach and Lucette Mirman.

Roland Laudenbach's paternal grandfather, Leon Mirman, was a friend of Charles Maurras of the Action Francaise.

Roland Laudenbach became a literary, theatre and cinema critic, and an outspoken political journalist.

On 31 May 1943 Roland Laudenbach married Helene Reverdy.

Roland Laudenbach began running La Table Ronde in 1945, a publishing company that originated in the Vichy era Cahiers de la Table de Ronde, the organ of a community organization associated with the right-wing Action Francaise.

Roland Laudenbach gained the support of the "Hussards", a movement of right-wing intellectuals who attacked existentialism and its mouthpiece Les Temps modernes.

Roland Laudenbach was a journalist, writing under the pen-name Michel Braspart, and in 1951 published the novel La Mauvaise carte about Algeria.

Roland Laudenbach was opposed to giving Algeria independence and used La Table Ronde to attack the ideas of General Charles de Gaulle.

Roland Laudenbach published an open letter to the Protestant editor Albert Finet on the front page of the new journal saying he and his colleagues were not competing with Finet's established weekly Reforme, but would speak more openly than they could in that journal.

Roland Laudenbach wrote that the agreement showed the total bankruptcy of the liberal and left-wing thinkers in France, for which both Christians and Socialists were to blame.