Pierre Chaulet

Pierre Chaulet (born at Algiers in 1930) is a pied noir doctor who worked with the FLN during the Algerian War. He performed secret operations on FLN fighters and sheltered the FLN leader Ramdane Abane. Eventually his cover was blown and he was expelled to France. Chaulet and his wife, Claudine, rejoined the FLN in Tunisia where he continued to work as a doctor and to write for the FLN paper, El Moudjahid [cite news |url=http://www.elwatan.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=38809|title=Professeur Chaulet - Itinéraire d’un homme accompli au service des autres
date=2006-03-23|author=Hamid Tahri|work=El Watan] [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=T-4AHoQjIGMC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79|title=Frantz Fanon: A Portrait|date=2006|isbn=080147308X|author=Alice Cherki] [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9ZvDC_XoGncC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46|title=The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War |date=2006|isbn=185973927X|author=Martin Evans] .

It was Chaulet who introduced Franz Fanon to the FLN, at Blida in 1955. [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=z55WPkZpyoYC|title=Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression|date=1985|isbn=185973927X|author=Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan] .

After Algerian independence, Chaulet joined the Mustapha hospital. He contributed to the eradication of tuberculosis in Algeria. Claudine Chaulet became a professor of sociology at the University of Algiers. In 1992, when Muhammad Boudiaf was invited back to Algeria after an exile of 27 years, he asked for Pierre Chaulet's assistance.

Chaulet is a member of the "Conseil national économique et social" (CNES) in Algeria.

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