# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andre-fontaine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:30:22.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andre-fontaine"
name: "André Fontaine"
slug: "andre-fontaine"
description: "André Fontaine was a French historian and journalist. He started working at Temps Présent, and then was director at Le Monde in 1947, at the official beginning of the Cold War. He became the newspaper's editor from 1969 to 1985, and director from 1985 to 1991. As of February 2007 he was still contributing articles to the paper. André Fontaine is famous for his historical thesis, according to which the Cold War in fact started as soon as 1917 with the cordon sanitaire policy."
tagline: "French journalist and historian (1921–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andr%C3%A9_Fontaine_(1969).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1921-03-30"
deathDate: "2013-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476170666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Fontaine"
    title: "André Fontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "أندريه فونتين (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "اندريه فونتين (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Fontaine_(gasediman)"
    title: "André Fontaine (gasediman)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Fontaine"
    title: "André Fontaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Fontaine_(journaliste)"
    title: "André Fontaine (journaliste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2847760"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump