death_place death_date birth_place nationality relatives portaldisp birth_date article_title name occupation alma_mater
paris 20 march 1996 paris french Édouard bourdet catherine pozzi yes 28 august 1909 claude bourdet
 claude bourdet writer , journalist , polemist and militant french politician swiss federal institute of technology zurich
claude bourdet

claude bourdet -lrb- 28 october 1909 -- 20 march 1996 -rrb- was a writer , journalist , polemist , and militant french politician .
bourdet , a son of the dramatic author Édouard bourdet and the poet catherine pozzi , was born and died in paris .
he left the swiss federal institute of technology zurich with an engineering diploma in technical physics in 1933 .
after his military service in the artillerie de montagne , he was put in charge of a mission for the economy ministry , during the government of the front populaire .
he was very active in french resistance movements .
he participated in the foundation of the resistance newspaper `` combat '' along with henri frenay , of which he was a member of the management committee , until the departure of frenay to london and later algeria in 1943 , when he was made its representative .
from 1942 he took part in the creation and development of the newspaper with the task of dividing the public administrations .
in 1944 , he was arrested by the gestapo and , after being imprisoned at fresnes , he was deported to various concentration camps , including neuengamme , sachsenhausen , and buchenwald .
after the war , he continued to write at `` combat '' , but his conflict with henri smadja , the owner of the newspaper , returned and he left the publication in 1950 .
in 1950 , with the help of gilles martinet and roger stéphane , bourdet formed `` l'observateur '' , which became `` l'observateur aujourd ' hui '' in 1953 , and then the `` france-observateur '' in 1954 .
claude bourdet defended the union of the left and social justice .
he supported the anti-colonial fight , denouncing repression in madagascar and torture in algeria .
in 1961 , he investigated and denounced maurice papon , the prefect of the police force , in connection with the shootings of algerian fln demonstrators on october 17 of that year , in the paris massacre of 1961 .
bourdet 's political militancy created tensions which led to a major rupture of the `` france-observateur '' team in 1963 , and his subsequent departure from the newspaper .
he continued to publish articles in `` témoignage chrétien '' , `` politique hebdo '' or `` politis '' , and took part in the special numbers of the `` nouvel observateur '' .
