Guy Gilbert

Father Guy Gilbert (born 12 September1935) is a French Roman Catholic priest and educator.

Born in Rochefort, Gilbert was educated at a seminary in Algeria and ministered in Algiers until 1970. He returned to France, to Paris, where he specialised in working with juvenile delinquents in the working-class XIXe arrondissement where there was a sizable pied noir community. He purchased a farm in southern France, in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and established the "Bergerie du Faucon" centre where troubled youngsters might be reeducated and reintegrated into society through work, contact with animals and nature, and self-respect.

A regular radio correspondent with Radio Notre-Dame, a frequent interviewee on television, a journalist with "La Croix", and a prolific author, Guy Gilbert's appearance—his greying hair is long and flowing and he is usually seen in a battered leather jacket— and language are unorthodox. Former President Jacques Chirac made him a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He received the award from Abbé Pierre.

elect Bibliography

* "Un prêtre chez les loubards", Stock, 1978
* "La rue est mon église", Stock, 1980
* "Des jeunes y entrent, des fauves en sortent", Stock, 1982
* "L'espérance aux mains nues", Stock, 1984
* "Aventurier de l'amour", Stock, 1986
* "Avec mon aube et mes santiags", Stock, 1988
* "Les petits pas de l'amour", Stock, 1990
* "Jusqu'au bout", Stock,
* "Dieu, mon premier Amour", Stock, 1995
* "Des loups dans la bergerie", Stock, 1996
* "Dealer d'amour", Stock, 1996
* "Cris de Jeunes", Salvator, 2003
* "Kamikaze de l'espérance", 2005
* "Et si je me confessais", Stock, 2007
* "Rallumez le feu", Philippe Rey, 2007
* "L'Évangile, une parole invincible", Points-Seuil, 2007

External links

* [http://jean-yves.larbanet13.club.fr/index.htm Web site]