Pacifism on the Precipice of War

Abstract

This chapter scrutinizes Fauxbras’s political journalism and his pacifism at the approaches of war. At the outset, a brief survey of the press of the period contextualizes his journalism. After the publication of Viande à Brûler, he had established sufficient reputation to be engaged as a columnist in the left pacifist press. As a journalist, Fauxbras possesses a dual significance. First, he witnessed the events of the later 1930s – in particular the Popular Front experience – from a left-wing but critical standpoint. Second, given his polemics against the right-wing press, he provides an interesting prism through which to examine the right and its journalism. This combination has a particular importance considering the role that journalists played in Parisian collaborationism during the occupation of France.