More than a century ago, on February 20, 1909, the Italian Marinetti published on the front page of
Le Figaro
, in three columns, his manifesto of futurism, the founding act of the first avant-garde movement of the 20th century.
The poet and writer first tried to get it to appear in the local press, without much success.
To give his movement a worldwide echo, he turned to the French daily founded by Hippolyte de Villemessant and directed at the time by Gaston Calmette.
This is not the first time that the newspaper has published columns with fists.
He did so, in 1887, with the virulent open letter from young writers of the naturalist generation, “Le manifesto des Cinq”, addressed to Émile Zola, for his novel
La Terre
.
But there,
Le Figaro
strikes harder and the press is unleashed.
Provocative theses
With others,
L'Intransigeant
protests against
"the excess of words, the disorderly hyperbole, the absurdity of the ideas of Mr. Marinetti"
who obtained this publication, thanks to Mohammed el-Rashi, shareholder
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