I am everywhere

I am everywhere was a Journal French published by Arthème Fayard, which the first number left the November 29th 1930. Pierre Gaxotte was his person in charge until 1939. The last number is appeared in August 1944.

The foundation

I am everywhere, as its name indicates it, is a weekly magazine founded to cover the international topicality. At the beginning, the newspaper is neither of extreme-right-hand side, neither anti-semite, nor even politically uniform. But the clearly impregnated hard core of the writers of Maurrassisme carries it rather quickly: Pierre Gaxotte, Robert Brasillach, Lucien Rebatet, Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, Claude Jeantet, Bernard de Vaulx (former secretary of Charles Maurras), Maurice Bardèche, Alain Laubreaux, Claude Roy, Miguel Zamacoïs, Pierre Halévy, Drieu La Rochelle and the draftsman Ralph Soupault… the moderate ones leave the drafting. The newspaper consequently becomes unparliamentary, antidemocrat, nationalist and convinced of the “decline” of France. It hardens its positions quickly, whereas the drafting is allured more and more by the fascistic parties.

Fascistic drift of the Thirties

I am everywhere plebiscite Mussolini since 1932, in an special issue published in October of this year. It supports the Spanish Phalange, the Rumanian Garde of iron and the small movement of Oswald Mosley. It shows a great interest for Leon Degrelle and its fascistic movement, the Christus Rex. The correspondent of the weekly magazine in Belgium is appointed rexist in the years 1930. I am everywhere approaches gradually as from 1936-1937 the Nazisme.

The anti-semitism of the newspaper breaks out after the riots of February 1934, then even more after the accession of Leon Blum with the head of the government in 1936. It competes of racism with the Nazis publications as from 1938 with two special issues: “Jews” (1938) then “Jews and France” (1939). In this second number, Lucien Rebatet is the author of a long article on “the Dreyfus Business”, article in which the culpability of Dreyfus is not then the slightest doubt for the writer. This toughening frightens the Fayard bookstore which sells the newspaper in 1936 to new shareholders, to of which the rich person heir of Argentinian origin Charles Lesca, which is defined as a “authentic fascist as much as calm” (in 1940 Alain Laubreaux and Charles Lesca are stopped on the order of Georges Mandel).

I am everywhere claims a Fascism with the Frenchwoman: “One will subdue foreign Fascism only by French Fascism, only true Fascism. ” (April 14th, 1939). It does not hide its sympathy to the Face of freedom outlined by Jacques Doriot with the main movements of extreme-right-hand side and the greatest conservative party of the time, the republican Federation.

Until 1941, Charles Maurras does not condemn its disciples. The rupture takes place this year, when the newspaper, interdict in 1940, little before the German invasion, reappears and clamp its collaborationnism.

The body emblematic of the collaborationnism

Triumphing after having obtained to reappear under the German occupation, the weekly magazine multiplies the polemics and the calls to the murder against the Jews and the politicians of IIIe République. Thus, in the edition of the September 6th 1941 Robert Brasillach writes it that “the death of the men with whom we owe so much of mournings all the French require it.” And in that of the September 25th 1942: “It is necessary to separate from the Jews in block and not to keep the small ones. ”

If I am everywhere is not, far from it, the only newspaper collaborationnist, it is most important and most influential. Its writers assert to have been the pioneers of Fascism in France, even if they recognize precursors, like Edouard Drumont and assert, at least in 1941, the influence of Charles Maurras. They also work with the Sheaf , with the Journal of Rouen , with Paris-Evening and more still with the Parisian Petit , thus extending their influence.

I am everywhere exerted a rather important influence on a rather young and intellectual assistantship. Its audience becomes larger under the Occupation: pulling passes from 46.000 specimens of 1939 to 250.000 in 1942. The great writers Jean Anouilh, Marcel Aymé, and especially Louis-Ferdinand Celine, publish texts there for this period, in spite of the outburst of the political articles.

Robert Brasillach is editor association of June 1937 at September 1943. This news gives also includes/understands: Fair Georges, Jean of Varende, Rene Barjavel and Morvan Lebesque. After the ousting of Brasillach, too considered moderated, the direction is ensured by Pierre-Antoine Cousteau. This change marks a last slip: I am everywhere align myself completely on the Nazism, forget the opening to the intellectuals which had made part of its success in the years 1930 for the anti-intellectualism of the Nazis and the most fanatic fascists, opens his columns with the Waffen-SS.

Several writers adhere to the French Popular party (PF) of Jacques Doriot and to the Milice. Cousteau and Rebatet protest: “We are not deflated” and ensure the publication of the weekly magazine until August 1944.

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