Claude Estier

Claude Estier is a journalist and a French politician, born the June 8th 1925 with Paris. Born Claude Hasday Ezratty, it obtained to change its name into Estier (Official journal, September 11th, 1983).

Biography

Resulting from the lower middle class of left. With a father and part of his militant family to SFIO, it bathes in a socialist culture until adolescence where its political socialization is reinforced under the influence of its professors Robert Verdier and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Engaging in resistance in 1942, it carries out transit of weapons and newspapers in Lyon until 1944. Responsible for the reports/ratios of listening of London Radio and Algiers Radio, it finishes the war in F.F.I It then becomes corresponding Progress from Lyon to Paris while adhering, in 1945, with SFIO. It supports there the tendency “Battles Socialist” of which one of the organizers, Elie Bloncourt, enables him to collaborate with the International Review. It is for an article on Jules Moch written in this review that it is excluded, at the end of 1947, of Popular where it followed the government policy. Collected in Action, it militates in 1948 with P.S.U where it meets, amongst other things, Gilles Martinet and Stibbe.

Hesitating between adhesion with the PCF and a simple trade-guild of road, it assumes its sensitivity communisante and neutralist when it integrates the original core of France Observer. It then plays there a big role in its political service while preserving its station at the Progress of Lyon and the measuring rods with Libération. Being located in anticonformist mobility, it is close to the trust of action of the independent lefts like many writers of Obs. It follows even a part from there with the UGS (1957) which shares its hostility with the molletism. Enthusiastic support for the Algerian cause, it ties bonds with the Algerian nationalists like Ferhat Abas.

The crisis of May 1958 constitutes a major rupture in its political route insofar as its antigaullism leads it to leave Le Monde in which he worked since 1955. Indeed, in June 1958, it seems only writers of the political service (Raymond Barrillon, Georges Mamy, Alain Guichard) to going at the end of its opposition to the wait and see position adopted by Hubert Beuve-Méry vis-a-vis the new capacity. It then starts a bringing together towards François Mitterrand and the UDSR but it maintains its collaboration with Libération and France Obs, its sympathy with the new lefts illustrating itself with its participation in a roundtable on this subject in January 1960.

In France Observer, it calls with a démarquage Net of the political line compared to that of the P.S.U. From 1963, it appears besides as a neutral journalist on the questions which agitate the newspaper compared to the P.S.U.

In 1964, it agrees to ensure the Co-drafting as a chief of Libération to ensure a balance vis-a-vis the Communists of the newspaper. But in 1965, the daily newspaper disappears and it reinstates the Nouvel Observateur as political editor. In parallel, it rejoins the staff of countryside of Mitterrand where it ensures the connection with the Communists. It is thus in the forefront to cover the candidature of Mitterrand for which it supervises closely the political line followed by the weekly magazine. At the time of the presidential campaign, he is opposed thus to Gilles Martinet on a One considered to be too unfavourable with his candidate.

Elected official appointed with the legislative elections in 1967, it ceases journalism then but, since 1969, it reinstates Nouvel Observateur as political editor. The takeover mitterrandienne to the P.S. in 1981 leads it definitively to leave the weekly magazine to be devoted with the Unit.

Mandates

Former deputy of Paris of 1967 to 1968 and 1981 to 1986
Former adviser of Paris
Senator de Paris: from 1986 to 2004
Former member of the commission of the foreign affairs, defense and armed forces of the Senate.
Former president of the socialist group to the Senate.

Publications

a combat centenary: 1905-2005: history of the French Socialists - Editions of Seeks midday - 2005
Ten years which changed the world: newspaper 1989-2000 - Editions Bruno Leprince - 2000
De Mitterrand with Jospin: Thirty years of presidential campaigns - Editions Stock - 1995

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