Henri of the Country house

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Henri Martin of the Country house of Hust (1915 - 1986) is a writer Poète and university French.

Graduate in right, in letter S, Political science and Eastern languages (Arab Maghrebian), Henri of the Country house was mobilized in 1938. Reserve officer, it was made prisoner in 1940 and endured five years of captivity in Germany. This long stay in the Oflag S was for him the occasion “of an immense lesson of reflection, of experiment of oneself and knowledge of the others”. After this test, no title, no function did not impress it. Only the value of the people counted. It resulted from it also an irrepressible taste from the voyages.

In 1946, it was accepted with the recruitment competition of the civil controllers of the Morocco. This country caused at his place a true dazzling which shows through in its book ‑ poem, the hour of the prayer , appeared in 1952. It remained in the Cherifien kingdom until the end of 1955. It found a ground of election there where it liked to practically return every year until its death. It evoked these years of responsibility with nostalgia: “We managed by the word, without papers, commissions, offices or almost. All was possible and much was done.” Convinced however of deficiencies of a system which had not known to evolve/move sufficiently, he did not hesitate to take the feather. August 1st 1951, the Revue of the Two Worlds published its Réflexions on the Moroccan relations free ‑ . Four years later, it wrote, for Politics foreign n° 4,1955, a lucid assessment, signed XXX, entitled: tension fields of modern Morocco . It there described it Malayan of Moroccan educated youth and recommended a second phase in the life of Protectorate, that of the decolonization. He spoke about experiment because the French authorities of Rabat had charged it with contacting this youth, which will enable him to tie solid friendships with the future executives of the nation.

In 1956, it joined Paris where it was interested more and more in the problems of the information intended for the metropolitan and international opinion on the Moroccan question. This one regulated, its new competences will make it indicate, of 1958 at the end of 1960, at the post of adviser technical with the cabinet of the general secretary for the Algerian Businesses.

In 1961, was created for him with the “Langues' O” a pulpit of civilization of the the Maghreb. It will stress in its teaching on the modern history and the topicality being done.

He travelled much in all the North Africa, as its second work shows it: the Maghreb ‑ Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco , appeared in the Horizons of France, in 1973. He traversed also the vast world, in particular where the Arab countries played a new part and where the Islam progressed. He did not move like a tourist, but like an attentive observer, living sometimes even under very frugal conditions. He brought back each time of them the matter of an article (he wrote some nearly fifty). Man of ground, dialog and reflection, adversary of any conformism, it will announce his experiment in its third book: four voyages to the court of civilizations , Paris, Editions of the Rock, 1985. It invited the young French there, to which it gave the word in the fourth part, to acquire the planetary glance and to take part in the dialog of civilizations, “those of the Person, the Word, the Gesture and the Rate/rhythm…” As in his two preceding works, one finds the glance of the poet there, this watcher, this eveillor, but this time on a world scale.

Elected with the board of trustees of INALCO in 1971, re-elected in 1974, it will become, a little by chance, president of the Institute in 1976. It settled in this function which it of nothing had coveted and assumed its responsibilities with such a serenity that it will be renewed there three times.

There impassioned by the future of the “Langues' O”, he played a decisive part to prevent, in 1980, the dismantling of the institute and succeeds in convincing the minister of Educaton main road to return to that ‑, in 1984, the statute of Great independent Establishment which he needed to develop. May 23rd 1986, Henri of the Country house died, after a short disease which did not prevent it until the end from being concerned with INALCO.

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