Élie Baussart
Elie Baussart (Couillet, on December 16th, 1887 - Loverval, on December 30th, 1965) is a Belgian man of letters , trade unionist of the left Christian woman and a Walloon militant.
Wire of blacksmith, born with Couillet in the industrial basin of Charleroi, Élie Baussart makes average studies at the Jésuites, in the modern section of the College of Crowned Heart of Charleroi. It will perfect its formation supported in that by its former professors and its readings in particular of Leon Bloy and Maurice Barrès. In January 1909, it returns to its old College as professor of French and history. Strange situation that this man of the left in a teaching intended for wire of the middle-class.
Élie Baussart is engaged before the first world war in the defense of grouping of the Christian working class while having an abundant literary activity centered in particular on the defense of its area, Wallonia, and sensitized by the social concerns
In July 1914, it is elected president of the Trade union of the Employees and Voyageurs of the Basin of Charleroi, which it has just founded. It is the Great War. Reformed for medical reason a few years earlier, Elie Baussart will in vain try to engage. He had married Valentine Castelain, a young Frenchwoman, with whom he had settled with the street of Attack.
In 1919, Elie Baussart founds the review the Walloon Earth which it will direct until in 1940 then definite like catholic and regionalistic. This review will have a considerable influence, well beyond its readers and well beyond the period when it was published. In 1930, this review opens more largely with social, the policy, with international, with collaborators like Jules Destrée or François Mauriac inter alia.
He was also a craftsman of a dialog Walloon-Flemish, and will radicalize himself thereafter until denouncing a certain economic seizure of the Boerenbond on Walloon agriculture.
He blames the rise of the Nazism in Germany, takes party in the war of Spain (one of the rare catholics to stigmatize the support with the catholics for Franco), against the Rexisme of Leon Degrelle, questions the experiment of the Popular front in France in 1936. In 1938, it publishes: Test of Initiation to the revolution anticapitalist . Between Fascism and Communism, in answer to the Capitalism. Elie Baussart, seeks a third way, impregnated of democratic socialism and reflection Marxiste for the emancipation of the workers.
In 1941 his Valentine wife dies, with nearly 50 years. He then discovers his newspaper impregnated of a major Faith, a discovery which will upset it and which will lead it to write a biography of his wife.
He dies with Loverval in 1965.
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