Pierre Chaillet (May 13rd 1900, Doubs, France - 1972), was a Théologien and a Professor French. He was intelligence agent, then chief in the French Résistance. Its action was especially turned towards the assistance with the Juif S. It was in particular president of the Comité of social works of resistance, then created the Cahiers of Christian testimony . In France, he was the Master of sprirituelle resistance vis-a-vis the Nazi S. According to Maurice Schumann, “You were our spiritual June 18th”.

Childhood and formation

Pierre Chaillet was born in a small farm from Doubs. Raise with the small seminar of the town of Maîche, it receives its religious vocation then and enters the Society of Jesus at the 22 years age.

By its voyages in Europe Germanic and central, he discovers the influence that the Third Reich extends gradually on all Europe. Thus in 1939, it publishes the book suffering Austria , which is worth to him to be supervised of very ready by the German intelligence services. Already conscious of the risks of the power Nazi, it is as an informed man that it enters the Second world war.

Second world war

Already respected as a theologist during the Years 1930, its notoriety grows by its actions of Résistance and its extreme devotion to the Jewish cause. It is a caritative resistance which this Jesuit carried out, even if it belonged to armed attacks and other actions of resistance vis-a-vis the occupant.

Its meeting with Henri Frenay, in spring 1941 directs it towards the clandestine press. He writes in the Small Wings and Vérités .

In 1941, decided to be active vis-a-vis the enemy and to prevent the dangers of the Nazism, it creates one of the first newspapers of Resistance: the Books of Christian testimony . Fourteen numbers will follow one another until August 1944. For reasons of accessibility and practical aspect, it decides into 1943 to add a layer additional to the Books, it is the Courrier of Christian testimony.

The characteristic of this newspaper is due to its spiritual and catholic aspect of resistance. By way of press, the Jesuit denounces clearly and using the Évangile S, the policy anti-semite of the Nazis and his danger to the Christian religion, like for the man.

In Lyon, it coordinates activities of assistance to the Jews and the victims of the Nazism in an interdenominational organization, the Christian Amitié where it joins the abbot Alexandre Glasberg. This organization comes to assistance of the foreign populations by providing residences, false paper, ration coupons and financial help. It thus mobilizes good wills of all confessions: Jews, Protesting S, catholics. By these actions of the every day, it practices most beautiful of heroisms, humility.

In 1942, it saves death thus several tens of Jewish children who were to be raids. Other sources announce that it saved thousands of Jewish children by doing them, inter alia, to evacuate towards the Spain and the Suisse.

Placé under house arrest, then continued by the Gestapo, it will escape to them until the Libération.

Post-war period

After the Release, in 1945, he assumes various responsibilities. He is in particular director of Christian Témoignage until 1956. He saw his last years in silence and the renouncement.

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