Yvon Morandat
Yvon Morandat (25 December 1913 in
Biography
Morandat was born into a family of small farmers in Ain, France. After gaining his end of primary school certificate, he became a farmhand and was an activist for Jeunesse agricole catholique. He left the farm to become a shop assistant in a hardware store in Buellas and then a salesman in a department store in Chambéry, and remained an active trade unionist. In 1937, he became the general secretary of the Syndicats Chrétiens de la Savoie (Christian unions of Savoy).[1][2]
At the outbreak of
After training in
He founded l'Agence Européenne de Presse in 1944, which he managed until 1947. He was a founding member of the Gaullist
Yvon Morandat died in Marseille on 8 December 1972. He was buried in Ventabren in Bouches-du-Rhône.[1]
Awards and legacy
He became a companion of the
Place Yvon Et Claire Morandat lies in Paris in the 17th arrondissement. The Collège Yvon Morandat is in Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg. A former coal mine and current geothermal heating project in Gardanne is named after Morandat.[4][5]
Morandat was played by Jean-Paul Belmondo in the 1968 French-US film about the liberation of Paris, Is Paris Burning?, directed by René Clément. Claire Morandat was played by Marie Versini.[1][6][7]
After the anti-Semitic writer, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, hurriedly fled his Paris flat upon the liberation of France, Morandat moved into the flat and lived there for several years. Accusations were made by Céline of Morandat and the latter offered to return property upon Céline's return to France. He refused. Recently, missing manuscripts of Céline have appeared, provided by an anonymous source to the journalist Jean-Pierre Thubaudat who revealed the manuscripts upon the death of Céline's widow, Lucette Destouches, in 2019. Amongst others, there has been speculation that Morandat might have been in possession of the manuscripts.[8][9]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Yvon Morandat". www.ordredelaliberation.fr. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Yvon Morandat". www.france-libre.net. 16 November 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Dehove, Gérard (1947). "LA FRANCE ÉCONOMIQUE: DE 1939 A 1946 (suite et fin)". Revue d'économie politique. 57 (6). Editions Dalloz: 1556–1593.
- ^ "A tempered water loop for the Yvon Morandat pole". www.accenta.ai. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Collège Yvon Morandat". ville-data.com. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ Scheuer, Philip K. (10 October 1965). "Paris Officialdom Burning Over Rash of War Pictures". Los Angeles Times. p. 3.
- ^ "Is Paris Burning?". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "The incredible reappearance of the missing manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline". www.archyde.com. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ "Thousands of unpublished pages of Louis-Ferdinand Céline found". news.in-24.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
