Charles Lesca
Charles Lesca (1871-1948) is an editor of press and Journaliste free - Argentinian.
Born with Buenos Aires, rich heir to a Basque emigrated in Argentina and there having made fortune in the trade of the preserve meats, he is volunteer in the French troops lasting the First World War. Friend of Charles Maurras, it is a time administrator of the printing works of the newspaper the French Action. He becomes in 1936 administrator of the newspaper I am everywhere, after the Fayard editor wished to resell this newspaper considered to be too radical. Having repurchased the shares of the newspaper which the writers could not acquire for lack of means, he becomes about it the principal shareholder and, as from 1943, the publication director in title. Radicalized politically with time, he asserts Fascisme openly. He also collaborates in other publications like the Cry of the people.
Having been stopped by the French police force in 1940 on order of the Minister of Interior Department Georges Mandel, it publishes the following year a work Antisémite entitled When Israel is avenged (Paris, Grasset). It takes refuge in South America to the Libération.
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