French Letters
Les Lettres françaises was a literary publication created by Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan in France in 1941, during the German occupation, and disappeared in 1972. It was a clandestine publication in which they collaborated, among others, Louis Aragon, François Mauriac, Claude Morgan, Edith Thomas, Georges Limbour and Raymond Queneau.
After the end of World War II, Les Lettres françaises, run by Aragon between 1953 and 1972, remained under the orbit of the French Communist Party, until, in 1972, it withdrew its financing.
In 1949, Les Lettres françaises was sued for defamation in a French court by a former CPSU official, Viktor Krávchenko, losing the magazine's trial.
Since the 1990s, L'Humanité has occasionally published extraordinary supplements under the name Les Lettres françaises.
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