André Chaumet
André Chaumet (28 July 1914 – 12 November 1983) was a French editor and political journalist.
Biography
André Chaumet was born in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, the son of Armand Chaumet (1882–1918), a commercial employee and his wife Rose Adèle (née Bigouret). His father was killed by a shell in Coivrel on April 30, 1918,[1] and later declared dead for France. André Chaumet was consequently recognized as a ward of the Nation on February 25, 1920.
On March 2, 1935, the young journalist married an 18-year-old steno-typist, Marie-Louise Démarez.
During the World War II, he was the editor of the magazine Le Cahier Jaune, which appeared from November 1941 to February 1943. The Institute for the Study of Jewish Questions (IEQJ), financed this magazine. He was also vice-president of the Association of Anti-Jewish Journalists (AJA).[2] The editorial staff of the AJA shared the same address as the IEQJ headquarters, 21 rue La Boétie.
With other contributors of Le Cahier Jaune, such as Henry Coston and George Montandon, he published a brochure entitled Je vous hais[3] ("I Hate You"), the title of which is an allusion to a line attributed to Léon Blum during a speech in the Chamber of Deputies.[4] A new magazine followed, entitled Revivre (with the subtitle "The Grand Illustrated Magazine of the Race"), published from March 1943 to July 20, 1944, this time directly linked to Vichy, and also directed by Chaumet. Member of the French Popular Party, he also worked at several other periodicals, such as Paris-soir, Notre Combat and Germinal.
After the war, Chaumet was found guilty of intelligence with the enemy, and sentenced in absentia to death and national degradation on October 27, 1947.[5]
He died on November 12, 1983 in Azay-sur-Cher.
Notes
- ↑ Archives of Paris, civil status of the 1st district, register of deaths of 1918, act no 1833.
- ↑ Stéphanie Dassa, Valérie Germon and Cédric Gruat, "L'Institut d'Étude des Questions Juives: Raison d'État et Passion Antisémite Franco-allemande sous l'Occupation," Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah, No. 179 (2003), p. 121.
- ↑ Pierre-André Taguieff, Grégoire Kauffmann, Mickaël Lenoire, L'antisémitisme de plume - 1940-1944 - études et documents. Paris: Berg International Éditeurs (1999).
- ↑ Pierre Assouline, L’Histoire, No. 148 (octobre 1991), p. 57.
- ↑ L'Aube (5 décembre 1947), p. 2.
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