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Robert Brasillach
Robert Brasillach () (31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945) was a French author and journalist. Brasillach is best known as the editor of "Je suis partout", a nationalist newspaper which came to advocate various fascist movements and supported Jacques Doriot. After the liberation of France in 1944 he was executed following a trial and Charles de Gaulle's express refusal to grant him a pardon. Brasillach was executed for advocating collaborationism, denunciation and incitement to murder. The execution remains a subject of some controversy,
nature of language and the irreducibility of the written word to notions of truth or falsity. He refused the editorship of the collaborationist "Nouvelle Revue Française" for which, as part of an elaborate ploy, he had been suggested by Jean Paulhan. He was active in the Resistance and remained a bitter opponent of the fascist, anti-semitic novelist and journalist Robert Brasillach, who was the principal leader of the pro-Nazi collaborationist movement. In June 1944, Blanchot was almost executed by a Nazi firing squad (as recounted