Claude Bellanger

Biography

It carries out its higher learning with Poitiers, takes part in the National union of the students and starts as of this time to be interested in the press by publishing its first articles with the Petit mail of Angers at the end of the Années 1920. It occupies of 1936 with 1939 the administrative position of secretary general of the League of Teaching, at the same time as that of director of the laic Action, and collaborates in the Light starting from 1938. He will be also director of the Center of between assistance to the students mobilized until in 1944.

Resistant, it was close to François Mitterrand. It was with Émilien Amaury one of the founders of the Parisian released of which it ensured the head office. He was vice-president of the Agence France-Press and chair International federation of the Editors of newspapers.

He married the writer Christine Arnothy in 1964 after to have met it ten years earlier.

He is prize winner of the Plume of gold of freedom 1979.

Its collection of press of approximately 80.000 documents was transported to Switzerland. It became the Foundation Claude Bellanger with Martigny (Valais). His/her son, the lawyer François Bellanger, professor with the University of Geneva, manages this inaugurated collection the September 15th 1989 by François Mitterrand in the presence of the Swiss president Jean-Pascal Delamuraz. He pronounced the praise of Claude Bellanger on this occasion.

Works

general History of the French press . From 1940 to 1968, T. IV, PUF, 1975
Love affairs, accounts personal
clandestine Press 1940-1944 , Armand Colin, 1961
the press of the barbed wires with Roger Debouzy

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