Les Cahiers de Libération, n° 1

This first issue of the Cahiers de Libération, conceived, “under a terror lightened by hope,” as a “tribune” offered “to the intellectual elite, forced into silence,” contains the first publication of the “Chant des partisans,” written in London in the spring of 1943 by Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon. It was Emmanuel d’Astier de la Vigerie — who, with Jean Cavaillès, had founded the clandestine newspaper Libération, organ of the Libération-Sud resistance movement they had established a month earlier, and from which the Cahiers emerged — who brought the text back to France in July and published it under the title “Les partisans (Chant de la Libération).”

This issue opens with the first article Albert Camus contributed to a Resistance journal, published under the pseudonym Merlin.

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