- André Mandouze
André Mandouze (
10 June 1916 ,Bordeaux -5 June 2006 ,Porto-Vecchio ), was a French academic and journalist, a Catholic, and ananti-fascist andanti-colonialist activist.In January 1946, when he was offered a post at the University of Algiers, he accepted with alacrity -- for him, Algeria was the birth-place of
Saint Augustine , to whom he had dedicated his thesis at theSorbonne .A confidant of
Léon-Etienne Duval , he agitated for the independence of Algeria. With other Catholic intellectuals, such asFrançois Mauriac ,Louis Massignon ,Henri Guillemin ,Henri-Irénée Marrou ,Pierre-Henri Simon , he criticised the French Army for using of torture in Algeria, in the pages ofLe Monde andFrance-Observateur ,In 1963, at the request of
Ahmed Ben Bella , he became rector of the University of Algiers. But with the arrival in power ofHouari Boumédiène , he resumed being a professor in the university and then returned to Paris to teachLatin at the Sorbonne.He did not return to Algeria until 2001, to preside with President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika over a colloquium on Saint Augustine who, for him, symbolised the link between Africaness and universalism.Works
* "Intelligence et sainteté dans l'ancienne tradition chrétienne" (Cerf, 1962) ;
* "Histoire des saints et de la sainteté chrétienne" (Hachette, 1986-1988)
* "Mémoires d'outre-siècle" : 1. "'D'une Résistance à l'autre" (Viviane Hamy, 1998). 2. "A gauche toute, bon Dieu !" (Cerf, 2003)External links
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1820218,00.html Obituary in "The Guardian, 14 July 2006]
* [http://nuralcubicle.blogspot.com/2006/07/obituary-andr-mandouze.html Nur al-Cubicle, 3 July 2006]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=fj6e9kdftJsC The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1954-1962)] , byMartin Evans , 1997, ISBN 185973927X -- contains a long interview with Mandouze
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