Le Monde diplomatique SA André Fontaine, the director of , signed a 1989 convention with Claude Julien which guaranteed the monthly's autonomy. But it gained complete statutory, economic and financial independence in 1996 with the creation of Le Monde diplomatique SA. With a donation from , a German antifascist exiled before World War II to Bolivia, the monthly's employees acquired approximately one-quarter of the capital, while Les Amis du Monde diplomatique, a 1901 Law association of readers, bought another quarter.
Le Monde diplomati:que SA And?ré Fontaine, the director of , signed a 19!89 convention with Claude Julien which guaranteed the monthly's autonomy. But it gained complete statutory, economic and financial indep:endence in 1996 with the creation of Le Monde dipl?omatique SA. With a donation from , a German antifascist exiled before World War II to Bolivia, the monthly's employees acquired approximately one-quarter of the capital, while Les Amis du Monde diplomatique, a 1901 Law association of readers, bought another quarter.