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Tonnot's arrest added new headlines to a case that had already titillated France and embarrassed President Georges Pompidou's Gaullist party. Prostitution is not illegal per se in France, but pimping and bordellos are. Moreover, the taint of scandal had spread from the flic-operators to party members in Lyon. One Gaullist deputy, Edouard Charret, was implicated when a local newspaper printed a picture of him attending the wedding of close friends. The groom, it turned out, was one of the city's better-known pimps and the groom's mother was a notable madam...
...Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the appearance of a new newsmagazine was a Gaullist plot against his successful anti-regime weekly L'Express. "The government tried to muzzle me through Le Point," the publisher-politician-author says of his rival, "and it hasn't worked out. We have won the battle." To Claude Imbert, Le Point's editor and Servan-Schreiber's former colleague, the aim is to give French readers a taste of journalism free of ideology, an antidote to the "current breed of French intellectuals in the press and elsewhere, with their leftist dogmas...
Eventually the group presented its concept to Nora, general director of Librairie Hachette, a giant firm that owns 50 publications. The company also has links with the reigning Gaullist Party. Ironically, Nora himself was one of Servan-Schreiber's closest associates during the launching of L'Express in 1953, but the friendship iced over after Nora accepted a government post. The bad blood between the two added spice to Hachette's decision to publish Le Point. "Between such good friends gone wrong," says one top Paris journalist, "there can be nothing but cadavers...
...former press attaché, began preparing the latest revelation after Chalandon lost his job last July when Pompidou forced Chaban-Delmas to tender his resignation. Chalandon asked Aranda to go through his correspondence and sort it out. Aranda did, and made photocopies of documents he considered compromising to Gaullist bigwigs...
...threatened to publish many more documents. "No one has the right to sell out the people of Israel," he added. "Shalom!" The speech led many Frenchmen to believe that he was Jewish. As it turned out, Aranda is Catholic, conservative and, to the consternation of the government, a staunch Gaullist. The Mirage statement, he explained grandly, was just "a poetic touch, a flower on the dung heap...