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Georges Suarez
Georges Suarez (1890–1944) was a French writer, essayist and journalist. Initially a pacifist, then a collaborator (he had been editor of "Aujourd'hui", a French newspaper controlled by the Third Reich after the resignation of the writer Henri Jeanson), he was also the biographer of Pétain and other figures of the "Troisième République". He was the first journalist sentenced to death during the "Épuration légale".
Biography.
Suarez was trained as a jurist. He fought in World War
"technocratism" such as had been theorised by Georges Lefranc, Georges Albertini and Bertrand de Jouvenel, and under the occupation he condemned the "corruption" and the "conspiracies" of the "Troisième République", writing in newspapers like "Libération" and "Aujourd'hui". Suarez' radical positions led him to support the Riom trials of the Vichy regime, trials set up in order to bring to justice those political figures of the Troisième République allegedly responsible for France's defeat of 1940.
From 1940, Suarez became