During 1943, several issues of "L'Aurore" were published in secret by Robert Lazurick (a former member of the Front Populaire). After the Liberation of Paris, in 1944, Lazurick, Jean Piot, and Paul Bastid obtained official authority to publish their paper under the title "L'Aurore" (the dawn), in reference to Clemenceau, and also to "J'accuse…!" by Émile Zola, published in the previous "L'Aurore" in 1898.