French New Wave - Wikipedia
The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism.
saying Godard or Chabrol shared that influence would be a stretch, and absurd in the cases of Rohmer or Resnais...
Well, there is Rossellini. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
But Cahiers, like ET, was a platform for criticism, in which multiple inputs brought multiple outputs, modified by the critical process. It had a very important role imo. You can't be me, I'm taken