Roger Quilliot

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Roger Quilliot (born June 19, 1925 in Hermaville , Pas-de-Calais department ; † July 17, 1998 in Clermont-Ferrand , Puy-de-Dôme department ) was a French literary scholar , university professor and politician of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) and later the Parti socialiste (PS), who was a member of the Senate between 1974 and 1986, a brief member of the National Assembly in 1986 and a senator again between 1986 and 1998. He was also Minister for Housing Construction for a short time in 1981 and then Minister for Urban Planning and Housing Construction from 1981 to 1983.

As a literary scholar, he was particularly considered a specialist in the work of Albert Camus .

Life

Studies, professional activities and Camus expert

His numerous publications made Quilliot an expert on the work of Albert Camus .

Quilliot, the son of a miner and a farmer's daughter, was the only student in his elementary school class to attend the college in Béthune and, due to his poor health, was accepted into the preparatory class of the renowned Lycée Louis-le-Grand after the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht , where he attended in 1943 belonged to the classmates of the later President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing .

After attending a meeting with Daniel Mayer as a speaker in autumn 1945, he joined a socialist student group and began studying literature at Lille University , which he graduated in 1949. He then became a teacher at a high school in Évreux and in 1950 in Angers . He then worked in the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department between 1950 and 1954 , before he was secretary of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) and member of a local council from 1954 to 1956 .

In 1956 he became a teacher at the high school of Savigny-sur-Orge and taught there until 1963. In addition, he continued his university research, which dealt in particular with the work of Albert Camus , on which he had written the essay La Mer et les Prisons in 1956 . After Camus's death, Quilliot prepared the publication of works by Camus in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade for the publishing house Éditions Gallimard . His numerous publications made him a recognized expert on the works of Camus.

Professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand

In 1963, Quilliot took over teaching literary studies at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand . In addition, he continued his political activity and was involved in the reorganization of the left after the elections of autumn 1962 . He became a member of the board of directors of the SFIO and took part in a delegation trip of the party to the Soviet Union in 1963 . During this time he was one of the active supporters of the Comité Horizon 80 , headed by Gaston Defferre , without, however , completely giving up the support of the Secretary General of the SFIO, Guy Mollet , who was in talks with the Parti communiste français (PCF) about a collaboration between the Parties led. During this period, Quilliot wrote a series of articles in Le Populaire magazine entitled Les communistes , in which he highlighted the difference between the Bolshevism of the PCF and the democratic socialism of the SFIO since the party's breakup in 1920 and the resultant formation of the PCF .

In 1965 he became general secretary of the SFIO in the Puy-de-Dôme department and a member of the board of directors of the Federation of Left Democrats and Socialists FDGS (Fédération de la gauche démocrate et socialiste) founded on November 10, 1965 by François Mitterrand , the SFIO, the Parti radical socialiste (PRS) by René Billères , the Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance (UDSR) and the Convention des institutions républicaines (CIR) Mitterrands, the Union des groupes et clubs socialistes (UGCS) by Jean Poperen and the Union des clubs pour le renouveau de la gauche (UCRG) by Alain Savary . There he was in a kind of shadow cabinet responsible for national education and ran for the FDGS in the elections in 1967 and 1968, albeit without success. At the same time, he continued his literary work and obtained a doctorate in 1970.

Mayor of Clermont-Ferrand and Senator

In 1971 Quilliot became a member of the Clermont-Ferrand City Council on the list of Gabriel Montpied , who had been the city's mayor since 1944. In 1973 he succeeded Montpied as mayor of Clermont-Ferrand and held this position until he was replaced by Serge Godard in 1997. In his first election, however, he only narrowly won with a majority of 540 votes against his opponent. At the same time, he was a member of the General Council in the Puy-de-Dôme department from 1973 , where he was leader of the left, where he was re-elected in 1979 and 1985.

On September 22, 1974, Quilliot was first elected a member of the Senate for the Parti socialiste in the Puy-de-Dôme department. After moving into the Palais du Luxembourg , he became a member of the Committee on Economics and Planning (Commission des affaires économiques et du Plan) on October 4, 1974, and on October 15, 1974, he was also a deputy member of a joint parliamentary committee of the Senate and National Assembly for legislative procedures the energy industry . On November 6, 1980 became a deputy member of the National Commission for Economic Urban Planning (Commission nationale d 'urbanisme commercial) .

Housing Minister and re-election as Senator in 1981

On May 22, 1981, Quilliot was appointed by Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy as Minister of Housing (Ministre du Logement) in his first government . As part of a cabinet reshuffle on June 23, 1981 , he was appointed Minister for Urban Planning and Housing (Ministre de l'urbanisme et du logement) and retained this position in the third Mauroy government until he was replaced by Paul Quilès on October 4, 1983 After his appointment to the government, he resigned his Senate mandate on July 23, 1981.

In the elections of September 27, 1981, Quilliot was re-elected Senator for the PS in the Puy-de-Dôme department, but his Senate mandate was suspended again from October 27, 1981 due to his ministerial office. During his tenure as minister, among other things, on September 22, 1981, he submitted a draft law to amend the Construction and Housing Act (Code de la construction et de l'habitation) . On September 25, 1983, he was re-elected Senator for the Puy-de-Dôme department and in 1984 a member of the Culture Committee (Commission des affaires culturelles) .

Member of the National Assembly and re-election as Senator

In the elections of March 16, 1986, Quilliot was initially elected a member of the National Assembly for the Parti socialiste in the Puy-de-Dôme department. At the same time he was re-elected senator for this department on September 28, 1986. He then resigned from the National Assembly on October 2, 1986 to accept his Senate mandate. On October 9, 1986 he became a member of the Senate Culture Committee again.

On September 27, 1992 Quilliot was re-elected a member of the Senate in the Puy-de-Dôme department, and on October 8, 1992, he was named a member of the Culture Committee again. He was a member of the Senate and its Culture Committee until he resigned his Senate mandate on July 14, 1998.

The Musée d'Art Roger-Quilliot , which opened in 1992, was named in his honor.

On July 17, 1998, he and his wife committed suicide, which was reanimated. She committed suicide in August 2005.

Publications

  • La société de 1960 et l'avenir politique de la France , 1960
  • Les Communistes et nous: deuxième série , 1964
  • L'univers théâtral et romanesque d'Albert Camus , 1964
  • La liberté aux dimensions humaines , 1967, ISBN 2-07025-331-7 .
  • La SFIO et l'exercise du pouvoir: 1944-1958 , 1972
  • Le Front populaire: juin 1936 , co-authors Jacques Chambaz and Pierre Gamarra , 1972
  • L'homme sur le pavois , co-author Claire Quilliot, 1976
  • La mer et les prisons: essais sur Albert Camus , 1980
  • Essais , 1981
  • Une écharpe de maire , 1981, ISBN 2-71710-207-8 .
  • Sur le pavois, ou, La recherche de l'équilibre , 1985
  • Accessibility: clé de la communication pour les handicapés dans la vie quotidienne , co-author Jean Pierron , 1987, ISBN 2-95024-421-1 .
  • Cent ans d'habitat social: une utopie réaliste , co-author Roger-Henri Guerrand , 1989, ISBN 2-22603-712-8 .
  • La réception de l'oeuvre de Camus en URSS et en RDA , editor Raymond Gay-Crosier, 1999, ISBN 2-25691-003-2 .
  • Mémoires , Volume 1, posthumous, 1999, ISBN 2-73810-669-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Clark Cabeen, Richard A. Brooks, Douglas W. Alden (editors): A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: In Three Parts. The Twentieth century. All genres since 1940 , 1980, ISBN 0-81562-207-4 , p. 1574
  2. ^ Françoise Trageser-Rebetez: The symbolism of light and shadow in Albert Camus: Paradigm analysis in the field of tension between the polarity of nature and history , 1995, ISBN 2-60000-113-1 , p. 10
  3. ^ Ray Davison: Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky , 1997, ISBN 0-85989-532-7 , p. 3 and a.
  4. ↑ Karen Joisten: Philosophy of Home - Home of Philosophy , 2003, ISBN 3-05008-199-6 , p. 243 u. a.
  5. ↑ Roland Doschka: Nature myth and history in the work of Albert Camus , 2003, ISBN 3-82335-894-4 , p. 148
  6. ^ Brigitte Sendet: Albert Camus: Autonomie und Solidarität , 2004, ISBN 3-82602-630-6
  7. ↑ Aïcha Kassoul, Mohamed Lakhdar Maougal: The Algerian Destiny of Albert Camus , 2006, ISBN 1-93090-158-5 , p 53 u. a.
  8. ↑ Christine Margerrison: "Ces Forces Obscures de L'âme" , 2008, ISBN 9-04202-379-1 , p. 41 and a.
  9. ↑ Christof Rudek: Die indifferent: Analyzes of the conception of characters in texts by Dostojewskij, Moravia, Camus and Queneau , 2010, ISBN 3-50309-896-8 , p. 155
  10. ↑ Willi Jung: Albert Camus ou Sisyphe , 2013, ISBN 3-84710-146-3 , p. 139 u. a.
  11. ^ Brigitte Sendet: Albert Camus. Rowohlt E-Book Monograph , 2013, ISBN 3-64450-131-9
  12. ↑ Journal of Camus Studies 2013 , 2014, ISBN 1-29198-484-4 , p. 109 u. a.
  13. ^ Cabinet Mauroy I
  14. ^ Cabinet Mauroy II
  15. ^ Cabinet of Mauroy III
  16. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (8th legislative period)
  17. ↑ Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette: Les 100 plus beaux musées de France 2012 , 2012, ISBN 2-74695-901-1 , p. 52
  18. ↑ Le couple qui s'aimait d'une mort tendre. Roger Quilliot, ancien ministre PS, et Claire ont choisi de se suicider en juillet 1998. Sa femme a survécu et raconte . In: Liberation of January 5, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Quilliot, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and literary scholar, member of the National Assembly and Senator
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermaville , Pas-de-Calais department
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1998
Place of death Clermont-Ferrand , Puy-de-Dôme department