Pierre Brisson
Pierre Brisson is a former director of the Figaro until 1964, date on which he dies accidentally.
After having been literary director of the newspaper, it takes the head of it then scuttles it in 1942 when the Germans occupy the free Zone.
Pierre Brisson takes again his direction with the Release. He prints with his newspaper his convictions: Anticommunism, defense of the parliamentary Democracy, reconciliation with Germany, European unit, Atlantic Alliance. These convictions make prefer Le Figaro with the Monde for Raymond Aron which joined Brisson in 1947.
Under IVe Republic, Pierre Brisson exerts an important influence on the political community. Across its anticommunism, it savagely fights RPF of Charles de Gaulle then joins there when this one arrives at the capacity. He however admits the decolonization of Algeria only in 1960.
He is opposed to the principal shareholder on the management of the newspaper, formulating his position: “in agreement with the capital, but independent of him”. To regulate the conflict, it makes vote a law cut to measure: the law Brisson.
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