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41st year  -  N° 29                 Thursday, 29 January 2026         Antwerpen		
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Tuesday 6th of February 1945
81 years, 11 months and 23 days ago




Writer and journalist Robert Brasillach is executed by the firing squad at the age of 36 in Fort de Montrouge, Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France.


Many personalities including Jean Cocteau, Arthur Honegger, Paul Valéry, François Mauriac and Albert Camus petitioned for a reprieve for Brasillach. It was not granted by President De Gaulle.