''L'Appel'' (''The Calling'') was a

collaborationist Wartime collaboration is cooperation with the enemy against one's country of citizenship in wartime. As historian Gerhard Hirschfeld says, it "is as old as war and the occupation of foreign territory". The term ''collaborator'' dates to the 19th ...

periodical of

Vichy France Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the Battle of France, ...

. It was the organ of the collaborationist

French League The French League (: "French League for Purge, purging, mutual aid (politics), mutual aid and European integration, European collaboration") was a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, collaborationist French movement founded by Pier ...

and edited by the League's leader,

Pierre Costantini Pierre Dominique Costantini (16 February 1889 – 30 June 1986) was a French soldier, journalist, writer. Life Costantini fought as an officer in the First World War and as a reserve officer in the armée de l'air during 1939–1940. He founded t ...

of the

Parti populaire français The French Popular Party (, PPF) was a French fascist and anti-semitic political party led by Jacques Doriot before and during World War II. It is generally regarded as the most collaborationist party of France. Formation and early y ...

(PPF). The paper was established in 1940. Its two main contributors were

Robert Julien-Courtine The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...

(1910–1998) and Paul Riche, the latter being a pseudonym of

Jean Mamy Jean Mamy (8 July 1912, Chambéry, Savoie – 29 March 1949, Arcueil) was a French actor, producer, film and theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and journalist, notable for directing the anti-Masonic propaganda film ''Forces occultes'' u ...

. Mamy was condemned to death executed for treason and executed at the fortress of Montrouge on 29 March 1949.

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