About

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69
Birthday:
1900-03-06
Place of birth:
Paris, France
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Henri Jeanson

Overview

Henri Jules Louis Jeanson (6 March 1900 in Paris – 6 November 1970 in Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics".

Jeanson was born on 6 March 1900 in Paris. His father was a teacher. Before becoming a journalist, he had several casual jobs, including being depicted as a soldier on a good-luck card for a postcard seller, belying his future pacifism. In 1917, he started work for La Bataille, newspaper of the Confédération générale du travail. Noted for his strong writing, he was a journalist throughout the 1920s, with intervening stints as reporter, interviewer and film critic. He was distinguished by the potency of his style and a taste for polemic. Jeanson worked for several papers including the Journal du peuple, Hommes du Jour and the Canard enchaîné, where he defended complete pacifism.

He resigned from the Canard enchaîné in 1937, in solidarity with Jean Galtier-Boissière.

He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in July 1939, for publishing an article in Solidarité internationale antifasciste, a periodical founded in November 1938 by Louis Lecoin, in which he congratulated Herschel Grynszpan for his assassination of Ernst vom Rath, an official of the German embassy in Paris. He was arrested in November 1939, at which time he had already joined his regiment in Meaux, for articles which had appeared in March and August 1939, and for having signed Louis Lecoin's tract "Paix immédiate". On 20 December 1939, he was sentenced by a military tribunal to five years in prison for "calling for disobedience within the ranks".

Jeanson was in prison for his pacifist writings, and this only a few days before the German army marched into Paris. His freedom was obtained by the lawyer and minister César Campinchi. He remained in Paris and in August 1940 was given the chief editorship of Aujourd'hui, an "independent" newspaper. The first issue went out on 10 September 1940. In November 1940, the German authorities pressured him to take a public position against the Jews and in favour of the politics of collaboration with the Vichy regime. Jeanson resigned and went back to prison. He was freed a few months later after the intervention of his friend Gaston Bergery, a neo-radical who had turned to the collaborationists through ultra-pacifism. From that point on he was banned from the press and the cinema, and worked secretly, writing film dialogues without putting his name to them. With Pierre Bénard, Jeanson participated in the development of secret pamphlets, and just missed being re-arrested in 1942. He continued to lie low until the liberation of France.

His story is said to illustrate the contradictions and compromises of absolute pacifism: the willingness to seek an understanding with Germany to avoid war, transforming, after France's defeat, into a desire for proper coexistence, even offering to serve the Germans. The newspaper Aujourd'hui was far from being innocent in its hunting down those allegedly responsible for France's defeat, resorting to the "clean sweep of the broom" myth in its Anglophobia. The paper entered into resonance with Marshal Philippe Pétain's narrative, and took the direction of German propaganda. ...

Source: Article "Henri Jeanson" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Acting
2007 Arletty, Lady Paname Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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Directing
1950 Lady Paname Directing Director 59
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Writing
1968 The Man in the Buick Writing Dialogue 59
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1966 Paris in August Writing Dialogue 59
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1965 Le Majordome Writing Writer 59
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1964 Champagne for Savages Writing Writer 59
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1964 Paris When It Sizzles Writing Story 60
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1964 The Black Tulip Writing Screenplay 59
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1963 Don't Tempt the Devil Writing Dialogue 59
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1963 The Sword and the Balance Writing Writer 59
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1962 The Devil and the Ten Commandments Writing Dialogue 58
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1962 Crime Does Not Pay Writing Scenario Writer 59
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1961 Madame Writing Screenplay 58
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1961 This Time it Must Be Caviar Writing Writer 59
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1961 Operation Caviar Writing Writer 58
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1961 Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! Writing Writer 59
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1960 Wasteland Writing Story 59
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1960 It Happened All Night Writing Screenplay 58
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1960 It Happened All Night Writing Dialogue 58
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1959 The Cow and I Writing Writer 60
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1959 The Cow and I Writing Dialogue 60
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1959 Atomic Agent Writing Writer 58
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1959 Marie-Octobre Writing Writer 60
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1959 Guinguette Writing Screenplay 59
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1957 Nathalie Writing Dialogue 59
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1957 Lovers of Paris Writing Writer 59
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1955 Nana Writing Writer 59
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1954 Madame du Barry Writing Writer 59
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1954 Madame du Barry Writing Adaptation 59
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1954 Daughters of Destiny Writing Writer 58
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1952 Holiday for Henrietta Writing Writer 59
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1952 The Moment of Truth Writing Writer 58
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1952 The Man in My Life Writing Writer 59
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1951 Bluebeard Writing Dialogue 58
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1951 Savage Triangle Writing Adaptation 59
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1951 Savage Triangle Writing Screenplay 59
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1950 Lost Souvenirs Writing Dialogue 58
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1950 Lost Souvenirs Writing Scenario Writer 58
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1950 Twelve Hours to Live Writing Screenplay 59
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1950 Three Sinners Writing Dialogue 59
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1950 Lady Paname Writing Writer 59
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1949 The Sinners Writing Dialogue 59
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1949 Between Eleven and Midnight Writing Dialogue 59
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1948 In the Eyes of Memory Writing Writer 59
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1948 Monelle Writing Writer 59
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1948 The Loves of Colette Writing Dialogue 59
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1947 Square of Knaves Writing Writer 58
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1947 Square of Knaves Writing Dialogue 58
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1947 The Crowned Fish Tavern Writing Dialogue 59
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1947 The Damned Writing Writer 59
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1947 Carbon Copy Writing Dialogue 58
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1946 A Lover's Return Writing Screenplay 59
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1945 Angel and Sinner Writing Scenario Writer 59
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1944 Carmen Writing Dialogue 59
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1944 L'aventure est au coin de la rue Writing Screenplay 59
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1938 Hôtel du Nord Writing Screenplay 61
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1938 The Curtain Rises Writing Dialogue 59
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1938 The Shanghai Drama Writing Adaptation 59
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1938 Le Patriote Writing Dialogue N/A
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1938 Princess Tarakanova Writing Writer N/A
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1937 Naples Under the Kiss of Fire Writing Writer 58
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1937 The Lie of Nina Petrovna Writing Dialogue 59
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1937 Life Dances On Writing Dialogue 59
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1937 French White Cargo Writing Screenplay 58
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1937 Pépé le Moko Writing Dialogue 62
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1936 Mister Flow Writing Writer 59
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1933 The Merry Monarch Writing Screenplay N/A
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1933 The Girl from Maxim's Writing Writer N/A
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1933 La Dame de chez Maxim's Writing Screenplay 59
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