Georges Montaron

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Man of Press and engaged journalist, Large Officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander in the Order of Merit, Georges Montaron is before a whole Christian militant .

Militant chétien . Resisting, President of the JOC, administrator of the Social security to his creation, director of Christian Testimony, founder of Télérama, President of the Weekly Parisian Press.

Biography

Resulting from a modest family of morvandiaux peasants - his/her father is workman typographer with the " Nationale" , his/her mother cleaning lady, Georges Montaron were born in Paris on April 10th 1921. It died there on October 8th 1997.

It is resistant , member of the Young Christians Combatants, president of the Christian working Jeunesse, administrator of the Social security to its creation, director of Christian Témoignage, treasurer then president of the National union of the Weekly press, founder of a great number of titles and movements such as:

Télérama ;
the Groups Christian Testimony;
the Red Help with Jean-Paul Sartre;
Recasting with JC Tillion and Gisele Halimi;
Believers in Freedom…

Its character, forged in Resistance, is the refusal of all totalitarianisms and dogmatisms. Its meeting with Christian Témoignage - newspaper resulting from Resistance - founds a one half-century adventure. History of Georges Montaron and that of " TC" become indistinguishable and their separation will result in his death.

In the name of its faith and values exit of the Resistance, this demanding Christian militant, figurehead of the " Cathos of gauche" , Socialist because Christian, prolongs, at the end of the war, during 50 years, the engagements against oppressions and for the dignity of the Man. Georges Montaron, opposes the French occupations in Indo-China, Tunisia and Algérie and denounces torture. What is worth to him to be continued by the French government, attacked by the extreme line and death threat by the OAS. This policy quite naturally leads it to take the defense of the Palestinian people, kanaks and sahraouis. It organizes in May 1970 with Beirut the World conference of the Christians for the Palestine.

Of par with these political actions and the defense of the Arab cause. It works for a reform of the interior of the Church and claims Christians " upright, free, and responsables". It militates for a revival of the Church and liturgy, supports the Abbé Pierre, defends the Churches of the third world, fights in favors of the priest workmen, and Mgr Gaillot . It launches the Call For a Church of the dialog with the service of the men and world which collects 250.000 signatures.

Eminent man of press, it enters to the Trade union of the Weekly press - also resulting from the Resistance of which he will become treasurer then president. During nearly one half-century, it does not have of cease, to defend the pluralism of the press which is in its eyes, the first of our freedoms, that which summarizes them all.

It is brutally évincé of Christian Témoignage on May 6th 1996. Estimating itself betrayed by some of its " amis" , it is wounded in the middle - with clean and with appeared. Hospitalized in Broussais in Paris in October, it undergoes two open-heart operations in November 1996. It dies there on October 8th, 1997, to have received shortly after the visit of Monseigneur Gaillot.

Titles

(principal)

National leader of Christian Working Youth (JOC). 1941 - 1947.
Administrator of the Social security. 1947 - 1954.
Managing limited liability company etc, Director of the publication and drafting of the weekly magazine Christian Testimony. 1949 - 1996.
Administrator of the weekly magazine Radio-Cinema, Radio-Television-Cinema, Television-Radio-Cinema, Télérama. 1950 - 1995.
Treasurer then President of the Trade union of the Parisian Weekly press. 1957 - 1977 - 1996

Works

Hunger with the belly Book XLI of Christian Testimony. Bnf - Tolbiac-Rez of garden - 8-Z-29697 (41). Library of the Congress of the United States: BR115.P7T4 (41)
Which are the Palestinians Cahier LI of Christian Testimony. Bnf - Tolbiac-Rez of garden - 8-Z-29697 (51). Library of the Congress of the United States: BR115.P7T4 (51) - LLC control number 74567240
Socialism Beauchêne Editions, January 1969. ISBN 2701003040. Bnf - Tolbiac-Rez of garden - 8-67741 (11). Library of the Congress of the United States: HX 44M564
Palestine Our Combat number 37/38. Bnf - Tolbiac-Rez of garden - 4-OJ-8512 (1970,37-38)
Georges Montaron - No matter what it costs of it, (1975), Collection Large Journalists (volume 13), Stock. ISBN 2-234-00057-X. Bpi-Georges Pompidou 079.2 MOUNT. Bnf - Tolbiac-Rez of garden - 8-Z-42796 (13). British Library - Shelfmark: X 709/20488. Library of the Congress of the United States: PN 5183M6A36.
Martyrs of the Nazism: Marcel Callo and others ED. Workers - 75011 Paris - 1987. ISBN 2-7082-2553-7. Bnf - Tolbiac-Rez of garden - 8-Ln27-95527. Library of the Congress of the United States: . BX 4705C2526F54 1987
Jerusalem in Palestine Library of the Institute of the Arab World: 328.12 MY.
Member of the J.O.C. in the Storm ED. Workers. ISBN 2-7082-2608-8. Bnf - Tolbiac-Rez of garden - 8-Lk7-62317

Distinctions

Officer of the Legion of Honor. Distinguished of Officer given by François Mitterrand, President of the Republic, on November 22nd, 1990.
Commander of the National order of the Merit. Distinguished of Commander given by François Mitterrand, President of the Republic, on March 31st, 1994.
Knight of the social Merit. In the honor of its participation in the creation of the Social security

They said

With Georges Montaron, it is not only one figure of the press which leaves us; it is the press of opinion which enters the history. Herve Bourges

… our dear friendly Georges Montaron who contributed so much to the defense of the cause of the Palestinian people. We will preserve the memory of a man right and we incline ourselves with respect and estimates in front of the defenders of our national rights and our cause right. Yasser Arafat

No one could not forget its courageous combat and its indéfectible solidarity with Algeria in fight for its freedom. Mohamed Bensabri

Georges Montaron will remain in the memories one of the most prestigious journalists of the French press. Jean-Paul Cluzel

It is you Georges who extracted the creative Word from his usual religious place to make it in all his originality resound the top of a popular platform. You went beyond the cathos of left and even of Huma as a full humanity. Jean Cardonnel

Georges Montaron has all his life, put its convictions and its knowledge, with the service of the man. Its combat was that of justice and peace. Jean-Claude Gayssot

For several generations of French Communists - and I am these - Georges Montaron will remain an exemplary figure of Christian engagement in and for the left. Robert Hue

It is a conscience resolutely enracinée in our century which has just disappeared. Lionel Jospin

Georges Montaron, since I know it - it is very a long time - is known to have been in the forefront of many social struggles, for the human rights, the decolonization. François Mitterrand

Georges Montaron was an example of what a man could undertake to defend best the causes. All its life in Resistance, against the colonial wars, for individual public freedoms and, a Church of its time it said: I fight. Georges Sarre

Man of faith and conviction, it will not have ceased during more than 40 years defending the republican values, social and Christian women who were at the origin of her engagement. It will leave the memory of a great man of press deeply attached to its independence. Philippe Séguin

the friendship that we carry you, since long years already, proves well that one can not " croire" with the same thing, and to accept the same things between people of good will. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand

Defender solved of the Press of opinion and its pluralism Georges Montaron will have been of all the combat of this last half-century. Working Life

Sources/Bibliography

Georges Montaron - No matter what it costs of it, Georges Montaron, discussion with No5el Copin, (1975), coll: Large Journalists, Stock. ISBN 2-234-00057-X
Georges Montaron, the novel of a life , Cecile Hamsy, 1996, Ramsay. ISBN 2-84114-059-8.
Homage to Georges MONTARON , Platform 2000 Number December 1st, th and th 1997. ISSN: 1283-7857

Bonds

Internal bonds

External bonds

Site of Georges Montaron
Site of the Trade union of the Parisian Press (SPPMO)

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