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Hubert Beuve-Méry (5 January 1902 in Paris – 6 August 1989 in Fontainebleau) was a French journalist and newspaper editor. Before the Second World War, he was associated with the
Vichy regime Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its ter ...
until December 1942, when he joined the Resistance. In 1944, he founded ''
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'' at the behest of Charles de Gaulle. Following the liberation of France, Beuve-Méry built ''Le Monde'' from the ruins of ''
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'' by using its offices, printing presses, masthead and those staff members who had not collaborated with the Germans.


Biography

He retired his editorship in 1969 but retained an office at the ''Le Monde'' building, until his death at age 87 at his home in Fontainebleau, near Paris. In 2000, he was named a
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by the Vienna-based
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.


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1902 births 1989 deaths French newspaper editors 20th-century French journalists Writers from Paris French male non-fiction writers French Resistance members Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery French newspaper founders 20th-century French male writers {{France-journalist-stub