Magazine La France Free 1941 Duty Collaboration Vichy Aron Labarthe Maritain

Extremely rare magazine La France Libre of September 15, 1941 published during the war in London by Hamish Hamilton and distributed clandestinely in France via the resistance.

Exceptional text on the occupation of France. Many fascinating articles including Raymond Aron under the pseudonym René Avord.

Extraordinary historical and literary document on the French resistance in London and France.

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“La France Libre”, monthly magazine founded in London in November 1940 and directed until December 1946 by André Labarthe (1902-1967). With Martha Jansen-Lecoutre and Stanislas Szymanczyk, two former members of the RUP (Universal Rally for Peace), soon joined by Raymond Aron, and the financial support of the Intelligence Service, Labarthe founded the monthly magazine “La France Libre” (domiciled at 15 Queensbury Place, London), which was published from November 15, 1940 to December 1946. Printed in an edition of 10,000 copies (it increased from 8,000 copies in 1940 to 25,000 at the Liberation according to Thierry Cottour), this review is distinguished by its high intellectual quality and its numerous collaborators, among whom Georges Bernanos, Albert Cohen, Ève stand out. Curie, Henri Focillon, Camille Huysmans, Jacques Maritain, Robert Marjolin, Jules Roy, Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos or Herbert George Wells; but also André Labarthe himself, Joseph Kessel, Romain Gary, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roger Caillois, Raymond Aron, Etiemble, Camille Rougeron, Pierre Mendès France, Pierre Gallois, etc., plus letters from De Gaulle and Churchill. .. Highly appreciated by the Anglo-Saxon press, a special edition, developed in the summer of 1943, was dropped on France by the Royal Air Force . At the same time, the magazine moved to Algiers. For Labarthe, this review's mission is to undertake a "crusade of ideas" to fight against "the moral acceptance of defeat" and restore a civilization based on "human freedom". At the time of the creation of this magazine, the publishing director André Labarthe was director of the armaments department at the headquarters of Free France. As for the editorial secretary, who signs a “chronicle of France” under the pseudonym René Avord, it is Raymond Aron, previously with the 1st combat tank company of Free France. Despite this initial proximity with General de Gaulle's movement, relations between Labarthe and de Gaulle becoming sour during the year 1941, “La France Libre” took, in the words of Raymond Aron, an “Agaullist” turn. ". — "Labarthe, troublemaker of the first Free France, is one of its most original characters. Thirty-eight years old, a brilliant mind consumed with passion; a resemblance to Robespierre that he cultivates even in the concern for elegance and in the imperceptibly powdered face; a gift of seduction maintained by an inner flame nourished by memories of the French Revolution and a plebeian childhood for which he prides himself (his mother was a housekeeper); but first, the ability to speak about everything with talent." (Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac, La France Libre de l'appel du 18 Jun à la Libération) — According to the same Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac, the philosopher , sociologist and journalist Raymond Aron (1905-1983), who tends to consider Gaullism as Bonapartism, was “the only non-passionate anti-Gaullist in London”. — " “La France Libre”, a magazine founded in London in 1940 by André Labarthe and at the instigation of General de Gaulle, undoubtedly constituted one of the first interdisciplinary and international strategic “think tanks” in the Western world: civilian strategists ( Szymonzyk, Labarthe), political scientists and philosophers (Raymond Aron), military writers (Pierre Gallois, Camille Rougeron), economists (Robert Marjolin) contributed to the review and addressed the problems of the current war in all its dimensions. The editorial meetings where ideas were compared and tested were like an ongoing research seminar. If “La France Libre” was more broadly a cultural review, with contributions on art and literature, the mode of operation that we describe undoubtedly existed to deal with strategic problems. A journal of exile and émigrés, the journal as a “think tank” had no continuation in France after the war." (Christian Malis, 2010)