Andre Mandouze , born with Bordeaux on June 10th 1916 and died in Porto-Vecchio (Corse-du-Sud), on June 5th 2006, at a few days of its 90 years, is a Universitaire and Journaliste Catholique, Militant of the Antifascisme and Anticolonialisme.

Normalien, aggregate of letters in 1937, it enters the Clandestinité under the Occupation, valley of the networks of Amitié Judeo-Christian, binds to the Dominicain Jean-Augustin Maydieu, one of the founders of the Christian weekly magazine Seven (prohibited in 1937 by the Vatican), and with the Jésuite Pierre Chaillet, with which it launches in 1942 the Books of the Christian Témoignage , of which he will be the first editor association.
En 1946, he becomes professor with the Université of Algiers. Algeria is for him the native soil of Saint Augustin, to which it will devote its thesis in Sorbonne. Near to the cardinal Duval, archbishop of Algiers, it militates for the Indépendance of Algeria. With other catholic intellectuals like François Mauriac, Louis Massignon, Henri Guillemin, Henri-Irenee Marrou (his Master in augustinism), Pierre-Henri Simon, it continues to say its rage against the Torture, in Le Monde, with France-Observer , Christian Témoignage .
En 1963, at the request of Ahmed Ben Bella, it undertakes to reorganize the Algerian university (or of Algiers?). But with the come to power of Houari Boumediène, it becomes again professor at the university of Algiers then returns to Paris to teach the Latin in the Sorbonne.
Il will turn over to Algeria only in April 2001 to chair with the president Bouteflika, a Colloque on Augustin saint, who, for him, symbolizes the bond between Africanité and Universalité.
Pour this Christian, married and father of seven children, the Insoumission was an act of faith.

Principal works

• Intelligence and holiness in the old Christian tradition , ED. stag, 1962
• History of the saints and Christian holiness , ED. Hatchet, 1986-1988
• Memories of in addition to-century : 1. From one Resistance to another , ED. Viviane Hamy, 1998; second volumue: On the left all, good god! , ED. stag, 2003