Arnaud de Solages

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Arnaud de Solages SJ (born February 26, 1898 in Carmaux , † November 25, 1981 in Luynes , France) came from an old French noble dynasty, was a Jesuit , secondary school teacher and active in the French resistance during the Second World War. He was an early sponsor of the German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff .

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Arnaud de Solages was the third child of the Marquis Jérôme Ludovic de Solages and his wife Marguerite de Guitaut. His father was a well-known industrialist and politician in France. At the Jesuit-run Bon Secours Collège in St. Savior, Jersey (now Highlands College, Jersey ), he distinguished himself through excellent achievements.

At the age of 16 he began his novitiate at St. Mary's College in Canterbury in late October 1914 . In 1917 he was drafted into military service with the 81st Heavy Artillery Regiment in Satory. In 1920/21 he was back in Jersey, where from the 1920s a group of French priests began to articulate powerful criticism of the Thomistic and neo-scholastic theology that was prevalent at the time . They referred to the earliest sources of the Catholic tradition, especially to the work of the Church Fathers . At the head of this movement, which would later become known as " nouvelle théologie ", stood the Jesuit Henri de Lubac ; His companions included priests such as Gaston Fessard, R. d'Oucine, Ch. Nicolet and later R. Hamel. Arnaud de Solages sympathized with this group and was appointed coadjutor by them.

In the following years he was a secondary school teacher in Poitiers , Le Mans , Tours and Vannes . In Tours, which became his favorite place, he was actively involved during the German occupation. From 1940 he supported refugees, Jews and other threatened people. In 1942 he performed the Jeanne d'Arc by Charles Péguy in the great theater of Tours with the students of the Collège Saint-Grégoire . The censorship of the German occupiers had checked the text and not objected to it. During the premiere, the first movement in which Joan of Arc attacks the English was greeted by the Germans who were in uniform in the ranks of the audience. When the applause from the French audience increased after the play was about the freedom and independence of France, it slowly dawned on the occupiers that this was a provocation to them and after the second performance they forbade any further performance.

Under Arnaud de Solage's direction, the Collège Saint-Grégoire in Tours developed along the lines of the “Jeunesse Etudiante Chrétienne”, which the Gestapo called for. In September 1943 the Jesuit Father La Perraudière was the first to be arrested. Arnaud de Solages went into hiding to avoid his own arrest and fled to the Massif Central ( Département Tarn ), where he resumed his fight with the Forces françaises de l'intérieur . With Anne-Marie Marteau and other resistance fighters, he founded the " Liberation Nord " network in the Cher department .

After the war, Franco-German reconciliation was a central concern for him, which he pushed forward with the Jesuit Father Jean du Rivau . From 1949 to 1957 he went to West German camps for refugees from the East for three weeks every year during the school holidays.

As a music lover, he attended the Salzburg Festival every year . He became friends with the painter Max Ernst , the sculptor Alexander Calder and the family of the politician Michel Debré , with whom he had worked in the resistance of the "Libé-Nord", as well as the doctor Georges Desbuquois who worked in Tours. He also had a lifelong friendship with Anne-Marie Marteau, whom he supported in setting up a facility for children from difficult social backgrounds in Joué-lès-Tours (now the Center Anne-Marie Marteau ) in 1947 .

The German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff was a pupil of the father in French and in the theater course at the Collège Saint François-Xavier in Vannes. Both had a lifelong friendship.

The father spent the last two years of his life in a nursing home in Luynes near Tours. He died there on November 25, 1981 at the age of 83. Three Jesuits and Volker Schlöndorff gave him the last escort to the Jesuit crypt in Tours.

literature

  • Alain Tilliette, sj: Père Arnaud de Solages, sj (1898–1981). Publication annuelle des Anciens de SFX. Xavier Entraide; 18, 1982
  • Pierre de La Rochebrochard, Robert Chevalier: Arnaud de Solages (1898–1981). In: Périodique jésuite internal “Compagnie”, February 1982, No. 155, pp. 38–39.
  • Volker Schlöndorff: light, shadow and movement. Carl Hanser, 2008, ISBN 3-446-23082-3 .
  • French Wikipedia article about his father Jérôme Ludovic de Solages

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mémoire Vive de las Résistance (ed.): Mention of de Solages in: Pierre Archambault . ( asso.fr [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Alain Rafesthain (ed.): La Resistance aux Mains Nues . CCB Royer, 1997, ISBN 2-908670-45-3 .
  3. ^ Robert Gildea (ed.): Marianne in Chains . Pan Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-312-42359-9 .
  4. ↑ Alain René Michel (ed.): Jeunesse Etudiante Chrétienne face au nazisme et à Vichy . Presses Universitaires de Lille, Lille 1988, ISBN 2-85939-299-8 .
  5. ↑ Jack Vivier (ed.): Prêtres de Touraine dans la Résistance: soutanes noires, soutanes vertes . CLD, 1993, ISBN 2-85443-240-1 .
  6. ↑ Musée de la Résistance 1940-1945 en ligne (ed.): Anne-Marie Marteau . ( museedelaresistanceenligne.org [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Musée de la Résistance 1940-1945 en ligne (ed.): Arnaud de Solages . ( museedelaresistanceenligne.org [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Académie de Touraine (ed.): DESBUQUOIS Georges . ( academie-de-touraine.com [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Stage CarSoc Tours (ed.): MECS, Maison d'Enfants à Caractère Social, Center Anne-Marie Marteau, L'Auberdière . ( stagecarsoc.org [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Volker Schlöndorff (Ed.): Light, shadow and movement . Carl Hanser, 2008, ISBN 3-446-23082-3 , p. 37 ff .
  11. ^ Yves Salmon: "Tambour battant" de Volker Schlöndorff (SFX 55-57), Paris, Flammarion . Ed .: Xavier-Entraide, newsletter of the ASSOCIATION AMICALE DES ANCIENS ÉLÈVESDU COLLÈGE ET LYCÉE SAINT-FRANÇOIS-XAVIER3 RUE THIERS, VANNES. No. 36 , 2011, p. 8–9 ( anciens-sfx.fr [PDF; accessed April 25, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Tours Infos (ed.): Montée des marches, tambour battant. Interview with Volker Schlöndorff . December 2012 ( tours.fr [PDF; accessed April 25, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Solages, Arnaud de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French teacher and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Carmaux
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1981
Place of death Luynes , France