Henry Coston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Coston

French far-right, anti-Semitic journalist, collaborationist and conspiracy theorist

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1910

Place of Birth: Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 26-Jul-2001

Profession: journalist, publisher, essayist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Henry Coston

  • Henry Coston (Paris, 20 December 1910 – Caen, Normandy, 26 July 2001) was a French far-right, anti-Semitic journalist, collaborationist and conspiracy theorist. After joining the Action française, Coston was influenced by journalist Édouard Drumont and took over his newspaper La Libre Parole (an anti-Semitic paper well-known during the Dreyfus affair) in the 1930s.
  • He had previously learned his trade editing La France Ouvrière with Henry Charbonneau.
  • At the same time he created an "Anti-Jewish Youth" organisation "which campaigned for the exclusion of Jews from French life." In the run-up to World War II, he was also in close touch with Ulrich Fleischhauer, German publisher of an internationally distributed anti-Jewish propaganda newsletter, the Welt-Dienst / World-Service / Service Mondial. During World War II, Coston belonged to Jacques Doriot's fascist PPF.
  • He also was vice-president of the "Association of anti-Jewish Journalists" and he organised the publication of one of the most anti-Semitic document of the Vichy regime, a tract entitled "I hate you" (Je vous hais).
  • At the same period, he also wrote anti-Masonic pamphlets with his colleague Jacques Ploncard d'Assac. In 1944, he tried to escape in Austria, but he was captured and sentenced to hard labour for life.
  • He was pardoned in 1952 for illness and served only five years.
  • He began writing again, mainly against free-masonry while he kept on denouncing the influence of Jews in French life. Until the 1990s he was contributing to different far-right newspapers.
  • He was a supporter of the Front National and occasionally wrote in its paper National-Hebdo.
  • From 1967 to 2000, Coston wrote a five-volume Dictionary of French politics (Dictionnaire de la politique française), which is considered as "exactly referenced" and "a non-negligible source of information" by the Jewish historian Simon Epstein.

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