Bonnefoy was the editor-in-chief of the Moniteur du Puy-de-Dôme [fr], a newspaper bought by Pierre Laval in 1927.
[1] After Pierre Laval dismissed the team of Je Suis Partout from Radio-Vichy in September 1940 due to their extremism, he entrusted the direction of information to Bonnefoy, who became responsible for developing the themes of the Révolution Nationale over the radio.
[2] Upon the return of Laval to power in April 1942, Bonnefoy replaced Paul Marion—then in charge of Information for the Vichy government—as the head of press control.
[4] In 1956, he released the novel Le Mouton Enragé under the pen name Roger Blondel,[6] adapted to the cinema in 1974 as Love at the Top and featuring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jane Birkin.
The one which is spontaneous, banal, overabundant, the one we hear in the street, at the coffee shops, in the subway, all these sonorous graffiti that show us daily that our world is empty..."[6] He was the father of literary critic Claude Bonnefoy [fr; ro].