Fejtő Ferenc, Közép–Európa közvetítője Franciaországban

François Fejtő, as a journalist and intellectual, expert of the communist world, was a particularly successful mediator of East and Central Europe in France where he emigrated in 1938 from Hungary to. By his extremely voluminous life-work, he did a lot for making understand the complexity of the region. Through his publications, his university teachings and expert activity, he participated, in a certain extent, in the elaboration of the French foreign policy towards East and Central Europe. The author tries to decipher the secret of this extraordinary success by using the Fejtő’s private documents, reports of the Hungarian secret services on him, the French and Hungarian literature and a great number of oral history sources.