Francis Jeanson

Francis Jeanson 7 July 1922 1 August 2009 was a French political activist known for his commitment to the FLN during the Algerian war Although his fathers name was Henri Francis Jeanson was not related to the Henri Jeanson who was a journalist at Le Canard enchaîné Le Crapouillot and a screenwriter During the Second World War he escaped through Spain to flee the Service du travail obligatoire and joined the Armée française de la Libération in 1943 A reporter for the Alger républicain in 1945 he met Albert Camus and JeanPaul Sartre and the latter entrusted to him the management of the magazine Les Temps modernes from 1951 to 1956 He wrote the critique of The Rebel which eventually led to ending for good the relationship between Sartre and Camus He became acquainted with Emmanuel Mounier who in 1948 opened for him the doors of the magazine Esprit where there was a certain philocommunism and who facilitated his entry into the intellectual seraglio of the postwar period Mounier also invited him to the reading committee of the Éditions du Seuil and recommended him to its literary director Paul Flamand At the death of Mounier in March 1950 Jeanson took over the direction of the series Écrivains de Toujours Beginning in 1957 at the height of the Algerian war he put his anticolonial ideals into practice by creating the Jeanson network to transport funds to the National Liberation Front of Algeria This clandestine network of militants was disbanded in 1960 Fleeing abroad Francis Jeanson was tried in absentia convicted of high treason and sentenced in October 1960 to ten years imprisonment He returned to Paris on the occasion of his amnesty in 1966 then worked with the Théâtre de Bourgogne directed by Jacques Fornier and was in charge of prefiguring the cultural policy of the Maison de la culture in ChalonsurSaône 19671971 He proposed and elaborated through this experience the notion of nonpublic which will be resumed in May 1968 in the Declaration of Villeurbanne of which he was the main editor Solicited by psychiatrists he then led interventions for an open psychiatry a psychiatrie du sujet psychiatry of the subject and created in particular the SOFOR Sud Ouest Formation Recherche which developed training activities for caregivers In 1992 he became president of the Sarajevo Association in support of the Bosnian people and was a candidate on the list Europe Begins at Sarajevo of professor Léon Schwartzenberg for the 1994 European Parliament election Source Article Francis Jeanson from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30