Andre Frossard

Andre Frossard , born the January 14th 1915 with Dovecote-Châtelot (Doubs), dead the February 2nd 1995 with Versailles, is a Journaliste and essay writer French.

Biography

André Frossard is the son of Louis-Oscar Frossard, one of the historical founders of the French Communist party, which was at 31 years the first general secretary of PCF, then minister in the governments of the Popular front. He is high in perfect atheism, " that where the question of the existence of God does not arise even plus".

His/her paternal grandmother was Jewish and its village of the east was “the only village of France where there were a synagog and not church. ”

At 20 years, it converts with Catholicism, on July 8th, 1935, in the vault of the nuns of the Worship, street of Ulm to Paris, which it had entered, carefree, in the search of a friend. He tells this sudden conversion in his work God exists, I met it .

André Frossard is elected member of the French Academy in 1987. He Only ensures until his death the chronicle Cavalier in Le Figaro.

Works

  • the House of the hostages , Beech, (1946)

  • paradoxical History of IVe Republic , Grasset, (1954)
  • the Salt of the earth , Beech, (1956)
  • Voyage to the country of Jesus , Beech, (1958)
  • the Attics of the Vatican , Beech, (1960)
  • Your humble servant, Vincent of Paul , Threshold, (1960)
  • God exists, I met it , Beech, (1969)
  • France in general , Plon, (1975)
  • There are another world , Fayard, (1976)
  • the thirty-six evidence of the existence of the devil , Albin Michel, (1978)
  • art to believe , Grasset, (1979)
  • are not afraid , dialog with Jean-Paul II, Robert Laffont, (1982)
  • the Whale and the Ricinus , Fayard, (1982)
  • the Gospel according to Ravenne (1984)
  • the Way of cross , with the Colisée with Jean-Paul II (1986)
  • do not forget the love , the Passion of Maximilien Kolbe, (1987)
  • the Crime against humanity , (1988)
  • Portrait of Jean-Paul II , (1988)
  • the Rider of the Quay Conti , (1988)
  • God in questions, (1990)
  • Le Monde of Jean-Paul II , (1991)
  • the large shepherds , (1992)
  • Excuse me to be French , (1992)
  • Défense of the Pope , (1993)
  • the unfinished Gospel , (1995)

Decorations

  • Officer of the Legion of honor
  • Military Cross 1939-1945
  • Medal of Resistance

External bonds

  • Card of the French Academy

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