Louis Delaprée (20 April 1902[1] - 8 December 1936)[2] was a French screenwriter journalist and war correspondent in Madrid for the newspaper Paris-Soir during the Spanish Civil War.

Paris-Soir had National/Rebel sympathies and Louis Delaprée's articles reporting the horror of the National bombings over the city were not too well received.[3] He eventually renounced to his position at the newspaper. The last article he wrote, under the title (borrowed from Émile Zola) "J’accuse...!", ended with the following sentence:

"Christ has said: Forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. I think, after the Massacre of the Innocents (perpetrated) in Madrid, we should say: Do not forgive them, for they (the National side) do know what they are doing!"

After resigning, he died in a plane crash near Guadalajara, Spain in unclear circumstances that have given room to speculation. He was posthumously made a Knight of the Legion of Honor.[4] After his death, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry replaced him as Paris-Soir's correspondent in Spain.

In 1933, he was co-screenwriter, with Julien Duvivier and Pierre Caldmann,[5] of La Tête d'un homme, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Georges Simenon.

References

  1. ↑ "Archives of Loire-Atlantique, commune of Nort-sur-Erdre, birth registry no 31, year 1902 (page 6/20)".
  2. ↑ Catalogue Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
  3. ↑ Solé i Sabaté, Josep María; Villarroya, Joan (2003). pp. 52-53
  4. ↑ "Ministère de la culture - Base Léonore". www2.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
  5. ↑ "Louis Delaprée". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-04-18.


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