Jean Fontenoy

Jean Fontenoy (21 March 1899 – 28 April 1945) was a French journalist and political activist. Initially a communist sympathizer, he later turned to fascism and was involved in collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography Born in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Fontenoy worked as a journalist for the Havas news agency from 1924 to the mid-1930s in Soviet Russia, then China. While 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. He then switched over to the National Popular Rally and formed part of the five-man directorate, chaired by Marcel Déat, that led the group.

During that period, Fontenoy became fixated with the notion that Doriot was plotting to kill him despite a lack of evidence. He was killed while he was fighting the Soviets in Berlin a few days before the end of the war after he had been fatally shot in the head.