Le Crapouillot
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- Le Crapouillot was also a far-right newspaper in the 1980s directed by Roland Gaucher.
Le Crapouillot was a satiric publication founded by Jean Galtier-Boissière, in France during World War I. Its name means in French:le petit crapaud that is "the little toad". At this time, in the trenches, the term was used by the Poilus to designate the small trench's mortars. The Nr 1 of Le Crapouillot, subtitled Courage les civils ! ("Civilians be courageous !"), is edited in August 1915, and distributed at first, by Boissière, to his fellow soldiers, the last one was printed in 1996.
[edit] External links
- Paris Muckraker www.time.com, Time Magazine (December 2, 1935)
- N. Hewitt Non-conformism, `insolence' and reaction Jean Galtier-Boissière's Le Crapouillot Journal of European Studies, 37, 277-294 (2007).
- (French) Website about Le Crapouillot
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