Georges Suarez

Georges Suarez (1890–1944) was a French writer, essayist and journalist. Initially a pacifist, then a collaborator (he had been editor of Aujourd'hui, a French newspaper controlled by the Third Reich after the resignation of the writer Henri Jeanson), he was also the biographer of Pétain and other figures of the Troisième République. He was the first journalist sentenced to death during the Épuration légale.

Suarez was trained as a jurist. He fought in World War I, and afterwards became a correspondent for the agence Havas news agency in Vienna. During this period, he worked with several newspapers including Le Temps and L'Écho de Paris.

In the 1920s, Suarez started writing several works in collaboration with Joseph Kessel, who remained loyal to Suarez until his death. Suarez, who was then a member of Action Française, joined with Kessel in producing an interview with Charles Maurras.

Up until the 1930s, Suarez displayed a lively interest in the politics of the Troisième République; he was particularly interested in Georges Clemenceau and Aristide Briand, to whom he devoted long monographs of anecdotes.

Like many of his contemporaries, Suarez adopted an ambiguous political stance over the course of time. Switching back and forth between the left (he was interested in the Cartel des gauches left-wing alliance) and the right (he followed the Stavisky Affair and the riot at the Palais Bourbon in 1934), Suarez preserved a centrist, pacifist and germanophile stance.

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