hara kiri
Context(Reddit):"Okay, Granted, France didnt say that Hara kiri should commit Seppuku (pun intended) over them joking the death Charles de gaulle (huh, wonder where I have heard of that before) but rather is was due to something else:
In November 1970, following the death of Charles de Gaulle at his home in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, the weekly Hara-Kiri Hebdo bore the headline « Bal tragique à Colombey : 1 mort » (Eng: “Tragic ball in Colombey: 1 death").
By way of contradistinction, the choice of the title refers to the far greater loss of life the same month: a fire at a discothèque (Club cinq-sept) in which 146 mostly young people died. The government felt this editorial choice was an offence of lèse-majesté against the deceased President, and its then minister of the interior Raymond Marcellin ordered an immediate and permanent ban on publicity and on sale to minors.
Charlie Hebdo was started immediately afterwards. Charlie in the title refers to General de Gaulle (said Georges Wolinski); but it was also the name of another magazine from Éditions du Square Charlie Mensuel, named after the character Charlie Brown from Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts”