Paix et Liberté (French: [pɛ e libɛʁte], Peace and Liberty) was an anti-communist movement that operated in France during the 1950s.
[citation needed] In response to the Stockholm Appeal for nuclear disarmament, Jean-Paul David, then Radical Socialist Party deputy mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie and later Secretary General of the Rally of Republican Lefts, created Paix et Liberté in 1950, to counter the activities of the French Communist Party.
Paix et Liberté published, distributed and posted hundreds of thousands of posters in France in the 1950s.
These posters were reproduced in the form of vignettes, attacking the Soviet Union and communist ideology, but also the French Communist Party and its leaders, such as Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, accusing them of being agents of the USSR.
Jean-Paul David also used the radio with his show Les causeries au coin du feu (fireside chats), which lasted only a few minutes, inaugurated on September 22, 1950.