Language:
French
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Archives Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,2 (2006) 96-109
Keywords:
Coty, François
;
Ami du Peuple
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Periodicals
Abstract:
Discusses the antisemitic campaign launched in 1932 by the popular, nationalist, and xenophobic French daily "L'Ami du Peuple", which had been established in 1928 by industrialist François Coty to boost his political and journalistic career. The paper's attacks on the (already deceased) Jewish banker Jacob Schiff, and on an alleged "Jewish conspiracy", which it blamed for the global economic crisis, received wide publicity due to its popularity and distribution (one million copies). Describes the polemics that followed the publication of the antisemitic articles. As a response to accusations of antisemitism, "L'Ami du Peuple" published yet another series of articles attacking Jews. In 1933 Coty helped found the first French fascist party, La Solidarité française, but his political career was about to end, since in 1932 he failed to gain a seat in the Paris city council and his paper began to lose its popularity. In 1934, ruined by a divorce, Coty closed down "L'Ami du Peuple" and died soon after. Traces, also, the careers of his antisemitic collaborators, Urbain Gohier and Jacques Ditte.
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