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L'Auto-Journal
''L'Auto-Journal'' is a bimonthly magazine created in 1950 by Robert Hersant and editor-in-chief Gilles Guérithault, devoted to automobiles. Notable journalists who have worked for ''l'Auto-Journal'' include Roland Gaucher and Jean-Marie Balestre. The headquarters is in Paris. The journal pioneered "automobile scoops". Famously, they published pictures of the radical new Citroën DS in April and June 1952, more than three years ahead of the car's October 1955 launch at the Paris Motor Show. Sketches of the future cars appeared, drawn by the car specialist and historian René Bellu. A further scoop picture, now showing the reconfigured rear roof-line as it would appear on the production cars, was published some two months ahead of its 1955 launch. Citroën reacted fiercely to ''L'Auto-Journals scoops, accusing the magazine of industrial espionage Industrial espionage, also known as economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage, is a form of espionage conducted ...
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René Bellu
René Bellu (July 10, 1927 – May 21, 2014) was a French journalist, illustrator, and historian of the automobile, known for his numerous works on the history of the automobile, particularly French automobiles. Born in Paris, he died in Le Conquet. Biography A member of the editorial team of ''L'Auto-Journal'' from its inception, Bellu created illustrations of upcoming automobiles for over twenty years, which became a hallmark of the magazine. Notably, he produced the first illustrations of the Citroën DS 19 in 1955, based on confidential information, before the car was unveiled. He also created the annual special issue for the Paris Motor Show of ''L'Auto-Journal'', a format that has since been widely imitated. Having amassed a rich collection of historical documents throughout his career, after leaving ''L'Auto-Journal'', Bellu began producing comprehensive works on the history of the automobile, first by manufacturer and later by year. He also contributed to the historical m ...
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Jean-Marie Balestre
Jean-Marie Balestre (; 9 April 1921 – 27 March 2008) was a French motorsport administrator and journalist. From 1978 to 1991, Balestre served as president of the '' Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile'' (FISA); from 1985 to 1993, he also served as president of the ''Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile'' (FIA). Born and raised in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Balestre initially studied law before becoming an automotive journalist. He was a member of the ''Schutzstaffel'' during World War II, reportedly in an undercover role for the French Resistance, receiving the Legion of Honour for services to France in 1968. After the war, he worked for Robert Hersant at '' L'Auto-Journal''. He became a founding member of the '' Fédération Française du Sport Automobile'' (FFSA) in 1950, and was elected as the inaugural president of the '' Commission Internationale de Karting'' (CIK) in 1962. After being elected president of the FFSA in 1973, and the FIA's '' International ...
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Roland Gaucher
Roland Gaucher (; 13 April 1919 – 27 July 2007) was the pseudonym of Roland Goguillot, a French far-right journalist and politician. One of the main thinkers of the French far-right, he had participated in Marcel Déat's fascist party Rassemblement National Populaire (RNP) under the Vichy regime. Sentenced to five years of prison for Collaborationism after the war, he then engaged in a career of journalism, while continuing political activism. One of the co-founders of the National Front (FN) in October 1972, he became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the FN in 1986. Early career Roland Gaucher entered politics as a far-left activist, first as a member of the Trotskyist group '' Fédération des étudiants révolutionnaires'' (Federation of Revolutionary Students) and then of the '' Jeunesses socialistes ouvrières'' (Workers' Socialist Youth), where he met with Robert Hersant and Alexandre Hébert, who would become one of the leaders of the social-democrat tra ...
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Robert Hersant
Robert Hersant (; 30 January 1920 – 21 April 1996) was a French newspaper magnate. He was a leader in the pro-Nazi youth movement during the Vichy wartime years, but after prison time built a major newspaper empire and engaged in conservative politics. At the time of his death he operated 40 publications and employed 8,000 people, but failed in his leap into television. Early life Hersant was born in Vertou, Loire-Atlantique. . He was the son of a captain in the merchant navy and showed early on an interest in school newspapers. Vichy France Initially involved with the Socialist Youth movement in 1935, Robert Hersant founded the rightist political party '' Jeune Front'' in the summer 1940. During that period, he became a friend of Jean-Marie Balestre. ''Jeune Front'' although a small group, was publishing the pro-Nazi newspaper '' Au Pilori''. He left this movement in October 1940, to become a member of the secretariat general de la jeunesse of the Vichy Regime. In 194 ...
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Picasso II
Retargetable graphics (abbreviated as RTG) is a device driver API mainly used by third-party graphics hardware to interface with AmigaOS via a set of libraries. The software libraries may include software tools to adjust resolution, screen colors, pointers, and screenmodes. It will use available hardware and will not extend the capabilities in any way. The Amiga OS 3.x intuition.library is limited to 8-bit display depths, but RTG libraries make it possible to handle higher depths such as 24 bits; on Amiga there are two common APIs: Picasso 96 and CyberGraphX, which are almost compatible with each other. Both Picasso 96 and CyberGraphX require at least 4 MB RAM and a 68020 CPU to operate. EGS and other early graphics card drivers Commodore planned to introduce retargetable graphics in future version of AmigaOS (4.0), but the company was not able to deliver such solution before its demise. Third-party graphics card manufacturers were thus forced to create their own software ...
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1950 Establishments In France
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annex the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establishes his headquarters and the colonies th ...
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French-language Magazines
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. It was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 26 countries, as well as one of the m ...
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Automotive Industry In France
France was a pioneer in the automotive industry and is the List of countries by motor vehicle production, 11th-largest automobile manufacturer in the world by 2015 unit production and the third-largest in Europe (after Germany and Spain). It had consistently been the 4th-largest from the end of World War II up to 2000. It is 16% of sales of French manufactured products. According to a market research forecast, the French automotive market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 6.5%, reaching a valuation of around US$50.9 billion by 2029. France is home to two major Automotive industry, automaking companies: * Stellantis (owner of the Peugeot, Citroën, DS Automobiles, DS and Opel, Opel/Vauxhall marques which were originally part of the PSA Group). * Renault, Renault Group (owner of the Renault, Alpine (automobile), Alpine, Automobile Dacia, Dacia, Renault Samsung Motors marques and 43% of Nissan) the 3rd-largest automaker in Europe and the ...
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Automobile Magazines
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are around one billion cars in use worldwide. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—was invented in 1886, when the German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Commercial cars became widely available during the 20th century. The 1901 Oldsmobile Curved Dash and the 1908 Ford Model T, both American cars, are widely considered the first mass-produced and mass-affordable cars, respectively. Cars were rapidly adopted in the US, where they replaced horse-drawn carriages. In Europe and other pa ...
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Citroën
Citroën ()The double-dot diacritic over the 'e' is a diaeresis () indicating the two vowels are sounded separately, and not as a diphthong. is a French automobile brand. The "Automobiles Citroën" manufacturing company was founded on 4 June 1919 by André Citroën. Citroën has been owned by Stellantis since 2021 and previously was part of the PSA Group after Peugeot acquired 89.95% share in 1976. Citroën's head office is located in the Stellantis Poissy Plant in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine since 2021 (previously in Rueil-Malmaison) and its offices studies and research in Vélizy-Villacoublay, Poissy (CEMR), Carrières-sous-Poissy and Sochaux-Montbéliard. In 1934, the firm established its reputation for innovative technology with the Citroën Traction Avant, Traction Avant. This was the world's first car to be mass-produced with front-wheel drive and four-wheel independent suspension, as well as unibody construction, omitting a separate chassis, and instead using the body of the car ...
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André Costa (writer)
André Costa (1927–2002) was a French writer and journalist. He was the charismatic senior editor of ''l'Auto-Journal'' from the creation of the newspaper (later reformatted as a magazine) in 1950, and road tested hundreds of cars, writing his road test reports with elegance and a level of insight which transformed that genre. Costa's writing also celebrated his appetite for automobile expeditions and adventures, such as his drive to Chad in a Citroën SM, a trip he undertook in the remote Hoggar Mountains with a Citroën DS, participation in the Paris-Dakar Rally along with numerous automobile adventures that involved traversing parts of Europe. Costa was also an historian, with a particular focus on the Second World War. In addition to his pure history, he wrote an Alternate history Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred ...
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