Henri Amouroux

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Henri Amouroux (born July 1, 1920 in Périgueux , Dordogne department , † August 5, 2007 in Le Mesnil-Mauger , Calvados department ) was a French journalist and writer.

Live and act

After finishing school, Amouroux came to Paris in 1938 and began studying at the École supérieure de journalisme . In the same year he began an internship at the Opera Mundi press agency, also in Paris . The following year he went to Bordeaux and worked for the daily newspaper La Petite Gironde . He caused a sensation with his series "Douze portraits de gloire nationales"

In early 1942, Amouroux joined a Resistance group that had been founded by members of the Deuxième Bureau and a Jesuit and that worked closely with the British Secret Intelligence Service .

In 1943 Amouroux came to work in the German Reich via the Relève and was able to return to France after a few months.

When Bordeaux was liberated in 1944, Amouroux was a journalist for the daily Sud-Ouest . Jacques Lemoîne, who had founded this newspaper as the successor to Le petite Gironde , made him editor-in-chief in 1966. In 1974 Amouroux moved to France Soir and between 1977 and 1982 he was managing director of the daily newspaper Rhône-Alpes . During these years Amouroux made several trips to Israel , the Soviet Union and Vietnam, which he then reported in remarkable reports on the radio ( France Inter ) and television ( TF1 ).

Between 1984 and 2006, Amouroux headed the jury for the Albert Londres Prize ; when he gave up the jury in 2006, he was elected honorary president of this committee for life.

When Maurice Papon was charged with his involvement in the Holocaust in the autumn of 1997 , his lawyer Gérard Boulanger et al. a. also discusses Amouroux's activities during World War II . With his statements, Amouroux became the opponent of the American historian Robert Paxton .

Soon after this trial, Amouroux retired into private life and settled in Le Mesnil-Mauger. He died at the age of 87 on August 5, 2007 and was also buried there.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

Biographies
  1. Les oublis de la mémoire 1940 . 1997, ISBN 2-221-08201-X .
  2. Les racines des passions 1940/41 . 2005, ISBN 2-221-08202-8 .
Reports
  • Israel, Israel. Vallée de larmes or "Amerique" du Moyen-Orient . Domat, Paris 1951.
  • Croix sur l'Indochina . Domat, Paris 1955.
  • Le monde de long en large . Domat, Paris 1956.
  • J'ai vu vivre Israel . Fayard, Paris 1958.
    • German: Israel - experienced land . Nannen, Hamburg 1961.
novel
  • Une fille de Tel-Aviv . Édition Duca, Paris 1957.
Non-fiction
  • Le 19 juin 1940 . Fayard, Paris 1967 (EA Paris 1964)
  • Pétain avant Vichy . La guerre et l'amour . Fayard, Paris 1967.
  • La grande histoire des Français sous l'occupation . Laffont, Paris 1976/99 (10 vol.)
  • Trois fins de régne . Lattès, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7096-2761-0 .
  • La vie des Françaissous l'occupation . Borée, Sayat 2011, ISBN 978-2-8129-0492-9 (EA Paris 1961)
Forewords

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Twelve biographical portraits, u. a. by André-Marie Ampère , Napoleon Bonaparte , François-René de Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo with references to the present.
  2. ^ Forerunner of Fritz Sauckel's arranged Service du travail obligatoire .
  3. ↑ Named after Napoléon Gobert (1807–1833).
  4. ↑ Named after Pierre Lafue (1875–1975).
  5. ↑ Named after Cino Del Duca (1899–1967).
personal data
SURNAME Amouroux, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Périgueux , Dordogne department
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 2007
Place of death Le Mesnil-Mauger , Calvados department