Jean Fontenoy
Jean Fontenoy (21 March 1899 – 28 April 1945) was a French journalist and fascist politician who was a collaborator with Nazi Germany. Biography Born in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Fontenoy worked as a journalist for the Havas news agency from 1924 to the mid-1930s in Russia then China. In China, he founded the French-language Journal de Shanghai and became the subject of a gossip campaign suggesting that he was having an affair with Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek's wife. Returning to France he sought involvement in politics, initially with the French Communist Party before he switched to the French Popular Party, a group that he left in 1939 because of his personal dislike of its leader, Jacques Doriot. Before long, however, Fontenoy put his personal issues to one side, rejoined the PPF and played a leading role in helping to reorganise the movement, and he also wrote widely not only for the PPF newspapers but also for the likes of L'Insurgé and Je suis partout. Despite his skill as an organiser and writer, Fontenoy began to develop a reputation for eccentricity that was aided by his personal habits. Already an alcoholic, Fontenoy was widowed in 1941 and began to abuse opium and