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Henri Jeanson, (b. 6 March 1900, Paris - d. 6 November 1970, Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of Pataphysics". Jeanson was born on the 6th of March in Paris. His father was a teacher. Before becoming a journalist, he had several casual jobs, including being depicted as a soldier on a good-luck card for a postcard seller, belying his future pacifism. In 1917, he started work for La Bataille, newspaper of the Confédération générale du travail. Noted for his strong writing, he was a journalist throughout the 1920s, with intervening... MORE

Henri Jeanson, (b. 6 March 1900, Paris - d. 6 November 1970, Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of Pataphysics". Jeanson was born on the 6th of March in Paris. His father was a teacher. Before becoming a journalist, he had several casual jobs, including being depicted as a soldier on a good-luck card for a postcard seller, belying his future pacifism. In 1917, he started work for La Bataille, newspaper of the Confédération générale du travail. Noted for his strong writing, he was a journalist throughout the 1920s, with intervening stints as reporter, interviewer and film critic. He was distinguished by the potency of his style and a taste for polemic. Jeanson worked for several papers including the Journal du peuple, Hommes du Jour and the Canard enchaîné, where he defended complete pacifism. He resigned from the Canard enchaîné in 1937, in solidarity with Jean Galtier-Boissière. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in July 1939, for publishing an article in Solidarité Internationale Antifasciste, a periodical founded in November 1938 by Louis Lecoin, in which he congratulated Herschel Grynszpan for his assassination of Ernst vom LESS