André Mandouze (10 June 1916 in

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- 5 June 2006 in

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), was a French academic and journalist, a Catholic, and an

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and

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activist. In January 1946, when he was offered a post at the University of Algiers, he accepted with alacrity—for him, Algeria was the birthplace of Saint Augustine, to whom he had dedicated his thesis at the Sorbonne. A confidant of Léon-Etienne Duval, he agitated for the independence of Algeria. With other Catholic intellectuals, such as François Mauriac, Louis Massignon, Henri Guillemin,

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, he criticised the French Army for using of torture in Algeria, in the pages of

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and

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, In 1963, at the request of Ahmed Ben Bella, he became rector of the University of Algiers. But with the arrival in power of

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, he resumed being a professor in the university and then returned to Paris to teach

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at the Sorbonne. He did not return to Algeria until 2001, to preside with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika over a colloquium on Saint Augustine who, for him, symbolised the link between Africaness and universalism.

Works

* ''Intelligence et sainteté dans l'ancienne tradition chrétienne'' (Cerf, 1962) ; * ''Histoire des saints et de la sainteté chrétienne'' (Hachette, 1986-1988) * ''Mémoires d'outre-siècle'' : 1. D'une Résistance à l'autre'' (Viviane Hamy, 1998). 2. ''A gauche toute, bon Dieu !'' (Cerf, 2003)

External links

Obituary in ''The Guardian, 14 July 2006

The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1954-1962)
by Martin Evans, 1997, —contains a long interview with Mandouze 1916 births 2006 deaths Academic staff of the University of Algiers University of Paris alumni French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French male writers 21st-century Algerian people {{france-journalist-stub