Maurice Clavel

See also: Clavel

Maurice Clavel is a writer, Journaliste and Philosophe French (Frontignan, November 10th 1920 - Vézelay, April 23rd 1979)

Its life

Born the November 10th 1920, Maurice Clavel is resulting from a family whose chief is pharmacist. In this medium of Languedocien small shopkeepers anchored on the right, it adheres to the theses of Doriot at the point to militate within PF of its birthplace, Frontignan.

Brilliance raises, it integrates the National university of the street of Ulm. There, it becomes acquainted at the same time with the trotskist Jean-All Saints' day Desanti and the maurrassien Pierre Boutang. It is the latter which, named to the secretariat of the State education, invites it to come to be used for its sides the marshal Pétain. Has just obtained his certificate of morals and sociology with Montpellier, Maurice Clavel accepts but loses quickly his illusions. While preparing a thesis on Kant, it engages then in the Résistance (1942). In the head of FFI of Eure-et-Loir, it takes part in the release of Chartres where it accommodates the Général de Gaulle on the square of the cathedral.

With the Release, he denounces the purification blind man and tries to save the heads of Brasillach and Drieu La Rochelle. He is not less one enthusiastic militant of the RPF whose sour criticisms of the Communist regime are worth to him to be marked by the PCF to be “the voice of Goebbels”. It then founds a newspaper, Rise , with the assistance of Henri d' Astier or André Figueras. In parallel, he writes parts put in scene by Jean Vilar like the Flamers (1947) or the Terrace of midday (1949). But those prove to be failures and it is broken by its rupture with the actress Silvia Montfort that it accepts a post of professor with the Carnot college of Dijon. Little appreciated by its hierarchy, it regains the universe of the theater quickly when, in 1951, Jean Vilar the fact of naming general secretary of the NPT But its part Malmaseda (1954), as its first novel a girl for the summer (1955) still prove failures. As from 1955, it starts its career of journalist in the columns of Combat . Protesting, inter alia, against the invasion of the Hungary by the Soviet tanks (1956) and the use of torture in Algeria, it engages at the sides of the gaullists of left of the democratic Union of work in 1959. With Emmanuel Berl, it animates also a daily broadcast radio ( Which are you? ).

But the refusal of the persons in charge of the radio to grant to Jean Daniel a right of reply on Algeria leads it to give them its resignation. The following year, it also ceases collaborating regularly in Combat after having published “the Time of Chartres”.

It does not support of it less the line of the general de Gaulle on Algeria, this last entrusting to him to tie the dialog with Messali Hadj. But the year 1965 mark a rupture in its political and philosophical evolution. Initially, it finds the faith in the Catholic religion. Then, the business Ben Barka in October of the same year leads it to take its distances with the de Gaulle general. In an opinion column with the World of the June 15th 1966, it devotes its rupture with this last while announcing to the press its availability to follow the lawsuit Ben Barka as legal chronicler. Thus in June, he is contacted by Hector de Galard to follow the business in Nouvel Observateur starting from the re-entry of September.

He starts his collaboration with the newspaper by virulent articles against the capacity, denouncing, inter alia, the “sharks and the pins” (October 19th 1966). The following year, it recovers the chronic Télévision of the Nouvel Observateur while continuing to write in Combat and to publish novels like the Purple of Judaea or the Delights of mankind (C. Bourgois, 1967). But it is May 68 which radicalizes its engagements. Perceiving the events of May like the “rising of life” of a youth tired of the consumer society, it feels revolutionary agitation like a festival and even wishes to involve the demonstrators of the May 13rd to the attack of the Elysium.

Within the Nouvel Observateur , it takes the party for the direction in the name of the need for a person in charge for a newspaper, loneliness of the leader-writer and individual responsibility. But, outside, it is put at the service of the most radical dispute at the point to leave its post of professor of philosophy to the Buffon college. The publication of collections of its articles of the Nouvel Observateur and of Combat in 1968 ( Combat of franc-tireur for a release , J.J. Pauvert) and in 1972 ( Combat, Resistance to the Revolution , Flammarion) illustrate the premium well that it gives then to his journalistic activities and its political commitment.

He then attends the Maoists mediums of which it support the media action by melting in 1971 the News agency “Release” with Sartre. But this year is also that which sees it exploding on the media scene. The December 20th 1971, during the television program With equal footings , where it was to discuss with Jean Royer, it discovers that a passage of its report where it evokes the feelings, according to him ambiguous, of President Pompidou towards Resistance was cut to the assembly. Outraged by what he regards as censure, he leaves the plate with crash and, addressing himself to the producers, their lance “the critics, good evening! ” which will make date and the “One” of the Nouvel Observateur of the December 28th 1971. A few months later, its notoriety is reinforced after obtaining the Prix Médicis (1972) for its novel One the Third of stars or one does not know which angel (B. Grasset, 1972). But, this notoriety, it puts it at the service Maoists with whom it launches in 1973 the daily newspaper Libération . Pouring with the newspaper part of its royalties, it publishes there in particular a serial (May 15th - June 12th). But it remains nevertheless with the Nouvel Observateur where its gaullism, its Catholicism and its Maoism strongly irritate the intellectuals of the newspaper. But they fascinate certain journalists like Jean Daniel who, by “his permanent Christian temptation, his major gaullism and his taste of the syncretism was absolutely in love (intellectually) with Clavel”. Thus it can post there a Zionism and a anti-feminism of good quality without large movements.

For example, it defends the encyclical Humanæ Vitæ - condemning the abortion and contraception - and proclaims “sexual Revolution traps with idiots” (February 21st 1972) not without causing the approval of many readers. It is also one of the more pro-Israelis of the newspaper, his philosemitism not being foreign there. Indeed, believer “with a Christian safety by the Jews”, it sees in them the “people chosen by God so that Christ incarnates herself there, there lives, dies and ressuscite”. Persuaded that the will of God is perceptible within the Human history, its reflection largely exceeds however this question to fall under a philosophical opposition to Marx, Heidegger and Kant.

Being established with Vézelay with the autumn 1975, it is less present at the newspaper, only passing there there to deposit its weekly paper and to dine with his/her friends on the new philosophers. Because if it is done, in what I believe (1975) and God is God, name of God! (1976), the burning defender of a found catholic faith, it is in phase with this mobility of which it seems the “godfather”. He often accommodates them in his house of Vézelay, in particular Christian Jambet and Guy Lardreau which teaches in Auxerre. It is in this house that it dies out, on April 23rd, 1979, of an heart attack.

In April 1989, for the 10th birthday of its death, a Journée of homage to Maurice Clavel , organized by the re-examined '' Cité '' gathered the majority of those which had divided its engagements: Luc de Goustine, Philippe Nemo, Jean-All Saints' day Desanti, Marie Balmary, Andre Frossard, Helene Bleskine, Edgar Morin, Jean-Pierre Dantec, Alain Jaubert, Jean-Paul Pared, Jean Daniel, Roland Castro. The organizing review then published an special issue gathering all these interventions.

Journalist

1945 Founds a newspaper, the Rise , which profits from the contest of Thierry Maulnier, Henri d' Astier and André Figueras but will not perdurera.

He writes in Combat of 1955 with 1960. He will collaborate in the Nouvel Observateur of 1964 to his Mort in April 1979 and will provide chronicles to the daily newspaper the Morning .

Works

Arts persons

  • the purple of Judaea , Bourgois, 1967
  • One the Third of the stars , 1971 - Price Médicis
  • Which is alienated? Critical and metaphysical social of the Occident , Flammarion, 1970
  • the Parishioners of Palente , Grasset, 1974
  • what I believe , Grasset, 1975
  • God is God, name of God , Grasset, 1976
  • all killed it to Us or this Jew of Socrate , Seuil, 1977
  • Two centuries at Lucifer , 1978
  • the Continuation belongs to others , Stock, 1979
  • the Loss and the crash or the Walls of the world
  • Critique of Kant

Theater

  • the Flamers (1947)
  • the Terrace of midday (1949)
  • Holy Euloge de Cordoue (1965)

Tests

  • Which is alienated?
  • the Garden of Djemila

Cinema

External bonds

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