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and devoted it exclusively to showing Debord's films. The unlimited friendship between the two men, apparently belied by all lack of similarity besides their respective age, provoked jealousy even among the close associates of Lebovici. In addition to his taste for political circles of the far left,
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carpark in Paris. There was swift confirmation that he had died on March 5 from four bullets fired from behind into the back of the neck. The assassins have never been caught. His wife Floriana took control of Editions Champ Libre, renaming it Editions Gérard Lebovici and opening a bookshop of the
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Parallel to his activities in business, Gérard Lebovici acquired a sulfurous reputation through his political associations. Scarcely politicized in his youth, although of mildly Left-wing sympathies, his future wife Floriana Chiampo, as well as the events of May 1968, radicalised him. Lebovici was
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Out of the necessity to ensure a source of income for himself more secure than acting, he followed his father into a menial occupation. However, passion for show-business caught up with him and in 1960, he founded a management agency with
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Champ Libre published a broad range of texts which reflected the ideological confusion of the time, as well as the growing influence of the American counter-culture. The defining moment of Champ Libre's development came in 1971 when
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In 1974, Lebovici decided to move Editions Champ Libre even more towards the fringes of the publishing industry. Debord acquired a growing influence over the choice of publication of certain titles (
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concentration camp during the Second World War. As he was on the verge of embarking on a promising stage career at twenty years of age, Lebovici's father died, leaving him orphaned.
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Lebovici had an extreme fascination for the culture of the criminal classes. He adopted the daughter, Sabrina, of France's "public enemy n° 1" at the time, the bank robber
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same name in the rue Saint Sulpice, Paris. She died of cancer in February 1990 and the bookshop closed shortly after with the stock transferring to Éditions Ivrea,
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and others) while the marketing policy of the house broke with normal standards: there were no paperback editions of bestsellers, and no contact with the press.
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fascinated by the Paris uprisings and seems to have viewed them as the birth of a true revolution. He is said to have confided to his friend
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In 1965, he bought a management agency from Andre Bernheim which included among its clients the French actor
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On March 7, 1984, Gérard Lebovici was found shot dead in the front seat of his car in the basement of the
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Champ Libre also republished some classic revolutionary tracts as well as writers dissenting from
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Various newspaper and magazine reports & articles too numerous to list from the year 1984.
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An anonymously authored pamphlet exploring the circumstances surrounding Lebovici's death
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The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out of the Twentieth Century
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the idea of founding a radical publishing house which he intended to be the "
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Complete list of books published by Champ Libre on French Knowledge (XXG)
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of the revolution". This idea materialised in 1969 under the name of
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approached Lebovici, in 1979, with a proposal to publish the
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Considerations on the Assassination of Gérard Lebovici
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