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Clément Vautel (1876-1954) the successful writer of  Mon Curé, and the most popular newspaper man between the two wars, has been forgotten. A conservative and xenophobe, reknown for his exagerated antifeminism and the saucy tone of his writings, the novelist met with a considerable success, to the point that he was considered as the symbol of some kind of «French wit » and the archetype of the reactionary observer. During the thirties, the economic crisis, the political instability and the questions about the international situation led him to express more and more caustic judgements. In his daily chronicle in Le Journal he attacks, as the famous demagogic common sense man he pretended to be, the foreigners, always suspected to be self-interested, unfaithful, trying to take advantage in any case, and he systematically reduces the importance of the antisemitic persecutions in nazi Germany. In fact, through a witful and moderate tone, Clément Vautel helps to the spreading of the most harmful themes of antisemitism among the general public.