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New Caledonia (France)

Author · New Caledonia (France)

Alin Laubreaux

Died in 1968

Alin Laubreaux was born in Nouméa on 9 October 1899. There, in 1919, he founded the Messager de la Nouvelle-Calédonie with his father, then left in 1921 for France, where he became a journalist and critic. Having joined the antisemitic weekly Je suis partout in 1936 as theatre critic, he signed his articles Alain Laubreaux there and supported collaboration under the Occupation. A refugee in Franco's Spain in 1944, he was sentenced to death in absentia in 1947 by the Cour de justice de la Seine, and died in exile in Madrid in 1968.

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