Georges Suarez

Georges Suarez (8 November 1890 – 9 November 1944), was a French writer, essayist, journalist, and jurist. Initially a pacifist during the rise of Nazi Germany, and later a right-wing journalist and collaborator. He had been editor of Aujourd'hui, a French newspaper controlled by the Third Reich after the resignation of the writer Henri Jeanson. Suarez was also the biographer of Philippe Pétain, and other figures of the French Third Republic. He was the first journalist sentenced to death during the Épuration légale.