Henry Coston [SEP] place of death
Henry Coston
Henry Coston (Paris, 20 December 1910 – Caen, Normandy, 26 July 2001) was a French far-right, anti-Semitic journalist, collaborationist and conspiracy theorist.
After joining the Action française, Coston was influenced by journalist Édouard Drumont and took over his newspaper "La Libre Parole" (an anti-Semitic paper well-known during the Dreyfus affair) in the 1930s. He had previously learned his trade editing "La France Ouvrière" with Henry Charbonneau. At the same time he
7 at Place de la Concorde, although some sources trace see its foundation date as April 7, 1934. Its creator was the young Corsican Clémenti, at the time still a sports columnist for the Radical-Party press. His involvement with militant French nationalism had already been attested by that moment: in 1932, Clémenti sat on the leadership board of the National League of French Youth, established by Jean Conart. In August 1933, he assisted Henry Coston in creating the "Francistes" party (itself a dissidence of the