André Fontaine (

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; 30 March 1921 – ''

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'', 17 March 2013) was a French

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and

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. He started working at ''Temps Présent'', and then was director at ''

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'' in 1947, at the official beginning of the Cold War. He became the newspaper's editor from 1969 to 1985, and director from 1985 to 1991. As of February 2007 he was still contributing articles to the paper. André Fontaine is famous for his historical thesis, according to which the Cold War in fact started as soon as 1917 with the

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policy. Fontaine died in Paris on 17 March 2013, aged 91.

Bibliography

* ''L'Alliance atlantique à l'heure du dégel'', Calmann-Lévy, 1960 * ''Histoire de la Guerre froide'' in two volumes (''De la révolution d'octobre à la guerre de Corée'' and ''De la guerre de Corée à la crise des alliances''), 1965 et 1966, Fayard * ''La Guerre civile froide'', 1969, Fayard * ''Le Dernier Quart du siècle'', 1976, Fayard * ''La France au bois dormant'', 1978, Fayard * ''Histoire de la détente (Un seul lit pour deux rêves),'' 1981, Fayard * ''Sortir de l'hexagonie'', Stock 1984 * ''L'un sans l'autre'', 1991, Fayard * ''Après eux le déluge, de Kaboul à Sarajevo'', 1995, La Martinière * ''La Tache rouge, le roman de la Guerre froide'', 2004, La Martinière ; re-edited with augmented chronology, Le Seuil, « Points »-histoire, 2006

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