ABSTRACT
The owner of Le Figaro, the Press Lord Louis Hersant, may perhaps be a sympathizer of ''the New Right'', yet the curious fact of the matter is hat the daily newspaper is conspicuously more liberal than its magazine. The curious spark for the new fiery controversies in the Paris press was provided by Le Figaro—not so much the daily newspaper as its weekend color section, Figaro Magazine, edited by Louis Pauwels, which has become the tribune of a new self-styled reactionary philosophy. But for the most part the excitement is about details of style and manner. This has always been the case in postwar Paris where one wave of newness has always followed another. For the time being the whole controversy appears to be a kind of ''escapism'', is much easier in Paris to occupy oneself with the fireworks of intellectual polemics than with the far more complex and difficult problems of analyzing the crises of French and European society.
