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Claude Bourdet(28 October 1909 – 20 March 1996) was a writer, journalist, polemist, and militant French politician.
Claude Bourdet | |
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| Born | 28 August 1909 Paris,France |
| Died | 20 March 1996(aged 86) Paris,France |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, polemist and militant French politician |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
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Personal life
editBourdet was a son of the dramatic authorÉdouard Bourdetand the poetCatherine Pozzi,was born and died inParis,France.
In 1935 he marriedIda Adamoff.
Education
editHe left theSwiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurichwith an engineering diploma in technical physics in 1933. After his military service in the Artillerie de Montagne, he was put in charge of a mission for the Economy Ministry, during the government of the Front populaire.
Life
editHe was very active inFrench Resistancemovements. He participated in the foundation of the resistance newspaperCombatalong withHenri Frenay,of which he was a member of the management committee, until the departure of Frenay to London and later Algeria in 1943, when he was made its representative. From 1942 he took part in the creation and development of the newspaper with the task of dividing the public administrations.
In 1944, he was arrested by theGestapoand, after being imprisoned atFresnes,he was deported to various concentration camps, includingNeuengamme,Sachsenhausen,andBuchenwald.
After the war, he continued to write atCombat,but his conflict with Henri Smadja, the owner of the newspaper, returned and he left the publication in 1950.
In 1950, with the help of Gilles Martinet andRoger Stéphane,Bourdet formedL’Observateur,which becameL’Observateur Aujourd’huiin 1953, and then theFrance-Observateurin 1954.[citation needed]Claude Bourdet defended the union of the left and social justice. He supported the anti-colonial fight, denouncing repression inMadagascarand torture inAlgeria.
In 1961, he investigated and denouncedMaurice Papon,the prefect of the police force, in connection with the shootings of AlgerianFLNdemonstrators on 17 October of that year, in theParis massacre of 1961.
Bourdet's political militancy created tensions which led to a major rupture of theFrance-Observateurteam in 1963, and his subsequent departure from the newspaper.
He continued to publish articles inTémoignage chrétien,Politique HebdoorPolitis,and took part in the special numbers of theNouvel Observateur.In 1985, Bourdet was a member of the "Jury of Honor" that assessed whatever the filmDes terroristes à la retraiteshould be aired in France or not.[1]The "Jury of Honor" in its report stated “though it is highly desirable that a film inform French of all generations about the saga of the FTP-MOI, such a film nevertheless still remains to be made”.[1]Bourdet called the film "racist and anti-Semitic".[2]
Bibliography
edit- Le Schisme Yougoslave,1950 (Editions de Minuit)
- Les Chemins de l'Unité,1964 (Maspero)
- A qui appartient Paris,1972 (Le Seuil)
- L'Aventure incertaine, de la résistance à la restauration,1975 (Stock)
- L’Europe truquée. Supranationaliste, pacte atlantique, force de frappe,1977 (Seghers)
- Mes batailles,1993 (In fine)
- L'Afrique, l’aventure d’Albarka, Jean Suret-Canal et Claude Bourdet,1973 (éd. du Burin-Martinsart)
Books
edit- Bowles, Brett (2011). "Historiography, Memory, and the Politics of Form in Mosco Boucault'sTerrorists in Retirement".In Sandra Ott (ed.).War, Exile, Justice, and Everyday Life, 1936–1946.Reno: University of Nevada. pp. 191–224.ISBN978-1-935709-09-1.
References
edit- ^abBowles 2011,p. 197.
- ^Bowles 2011,p. 198.