Word: cotnareanu
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...stint as drama critic for Le Temps, has found it easy to laugh off such attacks by the opposition. Since 1945 Le Figaro's circulation has doubled to 400,000. Not so funny, however, has been the opposition from another source-Le Figaro's owner, Mme. Yvonne Cotnareanu, former wife of the late Perfumer François Coty...
Sponge in the Ring. Like many another anti-German paper, Le Figaro closed its doors when the Vichy government took over unoccupied France in 1942. Two years later, the liberation government licensed Director Brisson to start publication again-virtually ignoring Mme. Cotnareanu and her 97% stock control. In & out of the French courts, Mme. Cotnareanu fought to get editorial control as well. Since she lived in New York City, she wanted Brisson to adopt what she termed "an American policy," reflecting the views of the U.S. State Department. Brisson refused, continued what he called his France-first policy that sometimes...
Russia. In a recent Le Figaro editorial, for example. Novelist François Mauriac wrote: It is not that which separates the U.S.S.R. from the U.S.A. which should frighten us, but rather what they have in common." Mme. Cotnareanu tried to fire Brisson, but Brisson, with the publishing license from the government safely in his pocket, stayed...
Last week Mme. Cotnareanu threw in the sponge. After selling half her stock to a pro-Brisson group headed by Jean Prouvost, onetime Minister of Information and prewar publishing king of France, she signed a management contract entitling Brisson and his top editors to run the paper for the next 19 years...
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