As the daily Liberation observed, he was ordered, in effect, to speak from the grave.
Then he was sent in Africa for the French daily Liberation, to cover several wars and conflicts.
"Anyone who says it's the end for supersonic flights has got it wrong," he told the daily Liberation.
The document caught the attention of the daily Liberation, which dedicated two pages to a report on the project.
He also works as a columnist for the French daily Libération.
His journalistic debut came in 1945 when he began to work for the daily Libération.
This omission provoked a fiercely critical article in the left-leaning daily Liberation.
He then joined the staff of the daily Libération in 1981.
"It is up to the government to assume responsibility for what happens," he said in an interview with the left-of-center Paris daily Liberation.
"On the question of morale," one party official told the daily Liberation, "we no longer need to pump it up. "