List of Censored Books
- Lamennais, Le Pays et le gouvernement (1840, led to Lammemais' imprisonment for a year)
- Henri Alleg, La Question (Minuit, 1958 - on the use of torture during the Algerian War)
- Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961), with a preface from Jean-Paul Sartre (published by François Maspero)
- Mongo Beti's Cruel hand on Cameroon, autopsy of a decolonization (Maspero, 1972) censored by the Ministry of the Interior Raymond Marcellin on the request, brought forward by Jacques Foccart, of the Cameroon government, represented in Paris by the ambassador Ferdinand Oyono.
- Bagatelles pour un massacre, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, for antisemitism, just like by the same author :
- L'Ecole des cadavres
- Les Beaux draps
- Léon Degrelle's Tintin mon copain
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