Louis Delaprée (20 April 1902 - 8 December 1936) was a French screenwriter, journalist and war correspondent in Madrid for the newspaper Paris-Soir during the Spanish Civil War.
Paris-Soir had National/Rebel sympathies and Louis Delaprée's articles reporting the horror of the National bombings over the city were not too well received.Solé i Sabaté, Josep María; Villarroya, Joan (2003). pp. 52-53 He eventually renounced his position at the newspaper. The last article he wrote, under the title (borrowed from Émile Zola) "J’accuse...!", ended with the following sentence:
"Christ has said: Forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. I think, after the Massacre of the Innocents (perpetrated) in Madrid, we should say: Do not forgive them, for they (the National side) do know what they are doing!"
After resigning, he died in a plane crash near Guadalajara, Spain in unclear circumstances that have given room to speculation. He was posthumously made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. After his death, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry replaced him as Paris-Soir's correspondent in Spain.
In 1933, he was co-screenwriter, with Julien Duvivier and Pierre Caldmann, of La Tête d'un homme, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Georges Simenon.
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