L'Observateur de la Paix

L'Observateur de la Paix (Observer of the Peace) is the name of one of two newspapers, apparently fictitious, in the seventh stanza of “Examination of the Hero in a Time of War.” The other journal is Gazette Guerrière, the War Gazette.
“Examination” is the penultimate poem in the 1942 collection of poetry, Parts of a World.
==The Two Newspapers==
Each newspaper tends to favor a different kind of heroes. The Gazette Guerrière favors the classic hero, presumably in the mold of Achilles, and the L'Observateur de la Paix favors the bourgeois hero. Contary to expectations, although Stevens notes that the “classic” hero has changed, Stevens spend many more lines waxing eloquent about the bourgeois hero—a phrase considered by some to be an oxymoron. Stevens claims that there “are more heroes than marbles of them,” but that these heros—incarnated in their marble statues—are somehow exceedingly public ideas. 
The entire poem, of course, is partly Stevens's reflection on the second world war.