See also: Gallo (homonymy)

max Gallo (born the January 7th 1932 with Nice), is a writer, historian and politician French. He is member of the French Academy since the May 31st 2007, with the armchair n°24.

Writer with great success, it published a number of works impressing, often with strong pulling. Its Romance first , which it calls of the works of “policy-fiction”, were written under the pseudonym of max Laugham .

He excels in his style Littéraire which he calls of the “novel-History”, while working with the historical resources and by supplementing its writing in a romantic way by adding its personal experience and its feelings to it. He does not exert any more since 1994 of political office.

Biography

Its childhood

Max Gallo is immigrant wire of Italy NS. His/her father, originating in the Piedmont, had left the school after his certificate of studies at 11 years and was of self-educated nature. His/her mother was originating in the area of Parma. The Gallo family lived in Nice, and max saw its childhood through the Second world war. His/her father was then resistant, but had not put its entourage in the confidence. Max attends as a spectator with the Occupation and the release of Nice and saw with intensity all these events which will mark its imaginary and its desire for being confronted with the history. However his/her father, of a temperament of careful nature, directs max so that it makes technical studies and that he becomes then civil servant.

Its studies

He obtains initially a CAPE of mechanic-fitter, then a technical baccalaureat with the Lycée of Park-Imperial the. He enters the public office then as a technician to ORTF, working at a transmitting station close to Antibes. Simultaneously with its profession, it continues its studies of history. It gives up a few years after its post of technician to become supervisor, then substitute teacher with Chambéry. It obtains then the aggregation of history and becomes professor with the Lycée Masséna. It continues its studies until the Doctorat of history, and becomes teaching with the Université of Nice. In 1968 it becomes teaching with the Institut of political studies of Paris.

Journalism

Max Gallo was leader-writer of the Express train during 10 years in the Années 1970 before resigning. After its governmental experiment of the Years 1980, it directed some time the drafting of the daily newspaper the Morning of Paris . It currently takes part with Jean-Louis Bourlanges and Yves Michaud in the Sunday emission the public Spirit presented by Philippe Meyer, on the waves of France culture.

Political life

Militant and member of the Communist party until in 1956, his studies of stories will lead it to give up this way which he considers aberrant, while remaining of left orientation of until the medium of the Années 1990.

It adheres to the Socialist party in 1981 on request of the Socialists niçois who sought a personality of mark having a sufficient notoriety to be opposed to the mayor of the time Jacques Médecin, considered like a Despote with the capacity since decades. Max Gallo was then very known to have published her novel on her town of Nice, the Bay of the Angels , which was a national and local success. He manages to be made elect Député of the the Alpes-Maritimes in 1981, but is beaten at the time of the municipal elections with Nice, in 1983.

He meets for the first time François Mitterrand during the television program, Apostrophes , of Bernard Pivot, in 1976. In 1983, it is named Secretary of State and Government spokesman of Pierre Mauroy. This new attribution the conduit to create this small Ministry with for principal private secretary François Holland. He leaves the government in 1984 in order to devote more time to his literary work and to exercise his mandate of European Député of 1984 with 1994.

In 1992 - 1993, it leaves the Socialist party with Jean-Pierre Chevènement, to found the Mouvement of the citizens, of which he becomes president. In 1994, it gives up its political commitment and is devoted entire to the writing. In 2005, it militates néammoins for “not”, with the referendum, against the European Constitutional treaty. Just like in its works, the claim gaullist and Bonapartist belong to his political discourse. The March 13rd 2007, it announced its support for Nicolas Sarkozy with the presidential election. Moreover, the May 16th, at the time of the accession of Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidency of the Republic, it makes a speech at the time of a ceremony in front of the oaks of the Cascade of the Bois de Boulogne where 35 resistant had been shot the August 16th 1944.

French Academy

After a first unfruitful attempt the June 22nd 2000 with the armchair n°10 of Jean Guitton, where it collects only six votes with the first turn, it is elected on May 31st, 2007 with the French Academy with the previously occupied armchair n°24 by Jean-François Revel. On twenty-eight voters, it collects as of the first turn fifteen votes, against five for the journalist Claude Imbert and for “Bernard Henri” (not candidate).

They said of him

• Claude Allègre: “It is the Alexandre Dumas of our time”.

Works

Quotations

• “Of all the characters of which I wrote the life, de Gaulle is that which moved me the most, of which I feel nearest - his vision to the history, its entourage, her relationship with his/her sick daughter, her pessimism. It was a being of pain and of size”
• “the event, creation of the individual initiative, gives birth to a new landscape. Look at the September 11th, 2001 In any event…, the history, whatever it is, is always an account. And never it does not completely exhaust a reality”
• “Jospin… resembles a serious Gorbatchev which wants to save the mitterrandism while taking its distances”
• “This epicurean calculator, liking the table, the women, the landscapes, the literature, this strategist of its own pleasure could want to only last, ready with all accommodations, saying what it was necessary not to lose this daily pleasure of ego”
• “I owe him much, it enabled me to circumvent the stopping of the literary institutions and never not to depend materially on criticism. Thanks to him, I had very early a direct relationship with my readers”
• “Difficult to go to Gennevilliers to address itself to smicards when one lives a district privileged like mine; the political life requires a shielding which is lacking to me”
• “My report/ratio with the writing is, it is true, a report/ratio of production. The man exists only by it “to make””
• Parler about the great men, it is always to speak about the nation. To know if a great man is possible today, it is to know if there exists still a Nation as a community able to be recognized in him or if there is from now on, for each thing, of public and more none to establish a cohesion around an individual
• “There is important that Film S, books and particularly the Enseignement reinforce the attachment with a national past. ”
• “the euro is a fact today but I fear that it does not lead to the crumbling of France in areas and the triumph of the communautarism. Liberalism, Federalism, Communautarisme: the three pillars of Europe are foreign with the French history. ”
• “I did not enter to PC as a son of middle-class man who has complexes of class and which sees in the proletarian a Messiah, but like a workman who undergoes an injustice or thinks of undergoing one of them. As soon as I became an intellectual who reads books, I found that it was completely idiotic to be communist. ”

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