the making-of of the front pages of “Libération” that you escaped – Libération

Ten years after the attack on “Charlie Hebdo”, making a nod on the last page of the satirical newspaper was obvious. For this special issue, discover the drawings and the front pages that were finally discarded.

A Libéwe have always been a little envious of the ones that you escaped Charlie publishes every week. These headlines that are a little too daring, these puns that are decidedly too offbeat but so funny that we didn’t dare to feature on our front pages, these snubs that the news didn’t have the talent to quite stick to. and which we discarded. Charliehe publishes these ones. So today, the drawings which almost opened this Libé special Charlie will not simply end up in the memories of those who participated in the meeting of one, but you too will be able to wonder which one you would have chosen.

This nod to the last page of Charlie takes on its full meaning on this special day. A Libé special Charlie? As January 7 approached, the principle was obvious and since Libé welcomed the Charlies twice, after the fire of 2011 and of course after the attack of 2015, finding a way to open our doors to them once again, in addition to our columns, was the common thread with which we wanted to dedicate this issue to them. An issue that speaks about them, with them, which speaks of resilience, freedom, secularism. And what could be better than a round table to invite them to discuss, to tell about Charlie yesterday, today and tomorrow. And to do it at home, Libéaround this table that they know too well to have designed the all-too-famous survivors’ number around it. “All is forgiven” Luz’s drawing on the cover was titled. All is forgiven and nothing is forgotten. Welcome home, Charlie.