Gaston Hanet Archambault

Gaston Hanet Archambault (25 February 1877 – 21 May 1951), known as G. H. Archambault, was a journalist considered by many to be the Dean of Franco-American Newspaper Men.

Life Gaston Hanet Archambault was born in Aÿ, Marne, France, on 25 February 1877.

Archambault started his career in journalism as a correspondent for British financial newspapers in Paris. In 1905, Archambault joined the Paris Herald which had been founded by James Gordon Bennett Jr.

During World War I, Archambault served in the French Army where he was wounded at the Battle of Verdun and was awarded the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre. When he recovered, Archambault became Liaison Officer to the American Expeditionary Forces. Fry's relationship with Archambault also helped the release of Chagall. Archambault wrote about Laval's ‘sell-out’ to the Germans and was then assigned to Bern in Switzerland but was back in Paris in October 1944 when the city had been liberated by the Allied Forces. All of Hanet Archambault's newspaper articles for the New York Times are in the New York Times archives. There were many front-page articles especially during the years 1939 and 1940 which show the inexorable progress of the German invasion.

In 1945 Archambault was sent to London but was then asked to establish an office of The New York Times in South Africa where he resided in Pretoria.

Archambault died in Cape Town on 21 May 1951.

The chief mourner at Archambault's funeral was Michael Hanet Archambault, his only surviving son. Europe in Turmoil and Democracy in Peril 1900-1940: My life as a newspaper man, from the Herald to the New York Times, by Gaston Hanet Archambault, 1942. Archambault's memoirs were published independently and posthumously in 2023