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Francis Jeanson (7 July 1922 – 1 August 2009) was a French political activist known for his commitment to the FLN during the
Algerian war The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
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Life

Although his father's name was Henri, Francis Jeanson was not related to the
Henri Jeanson Henri Jules Louis Jeanson (6 March 1900 in Paris – 6 November 1970 in Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics". As a journalist before World War II Jeanson was born on 6 March ...
who was a journalist at ''
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'', ''
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'', and a screenwriter. During the Second World War, he escaped through Spain to flee the
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and joined the
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in 1943. A reporter for the '' Alger républicain'' in 1945, he met
Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...
and
Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and litera ...
and the latter entrusted to him the management of the magazine ''
Les Temps modernes ''Les Temps Modernes'' (''Modern Times'') is a French journal, founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It first issue was published in October 1945. It was named after the 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin. ''L ...
'' 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 Emmanuel Mounier (; ; 1 April 1905 – 22 March 1950) was a French philosopher, theologian, teacher and essayist. Biography Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French personalist movement, and founder and director of '' Esprit'', the magazine ...
, 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 post-war period. Mounier also invited him to the reading committee of the
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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".''Francis Jeanson et la revue Esprit 1. Entre Sartre et Mounier. Les intellectuels et la guerre d'Algérie''
, Marie-Pierre Ulloa, ''esprit.presse.fr'', 16 mars 2012 Beginning in 1957, at the height of the Algerian war, he put his anti-colonial ideals into practice by creating the
Jeanson network The Jeanson network () was a group of French leftwing militants led by Francis Jeanson who helped Algerian National Liberation Front agents operating in the French metropolitan territory during the Algerian War. They were mainly involved in carry ...
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
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, 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
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(1967–1971). He proposed and elaborated through this experience the notion of "non-public", 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
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of professor for the
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.


Bibliography

*1950: ''Signification humaine du rire'',
Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as ''Le Seuil'', is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' ...
*1951: ''Montaigne par lui-même'', Seuil, "Écrivains de toujours",
Prix Fénéon The Fénéon Prize (''Prix Fénéon''), established in 1949, is awarded annually to a French-language writer and a visual artist no older than 35 years of age. The prize was established by Fanny Fénéon, the widow of French art critic Félix Fén ...
in 1953 *1952: ''La Phénoménologie'' *1954: ''La vraie vérité'', followed by ''La Récrimination'' *1955: ''Sartre par lui-même'' *1955: ''L'Algérie hors la loi'', in collaboration with Colette Jeanson (his wife) *1960: ''Notre guerre'', Éditions de Minuit *1962: ''La Révolution algérienne, problèmes et perspectives'' *1963: ''Lignes de départ'' *1963 :''La Foi d'un incroyant'', Seuil - *1965: ''Lettre aux femmes'' *1965: ''Problème le moral et la pensée de Sartre'' followed by ''Un quidam nommé Sartre'', Seuil *1966: ''Sartre'' *1966: ''Simone de Beauvoir ou l'entreprise de vivre'', Seuil *1969: ''La Foi'', with Paul Toinet *1973: ''L'action culturelle dans la cité'', Seuil - *1974: ''Sartre dans sa vie : biographie'', Seuil - *1978: ''Discours sans méthode'', interviews with
Henri Laborit Henri Laborit (21 November 1914 – 18 May 1995) was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatri ...
*1979 ''Éloge de la psychiatrie'', Seuil - *1987 ''La Psychiatrie au tournant'', Seuil - *1991: ''Algéries'', Seuil - *1997: ''Une exigence de sens'' (three conversations with Dominique-Emmanuel Blanchard), at *2000: ''Sartre'', Seuil *2000: ''Entre-deux, entretiens avec Christiane Philip'', Éditions Le Bord de l'eau *2001: ''Notre guerre'', - *2004: ''Quelle formation, pour quelle psychiatrie ? Vingt ans d'expérience de la SOFOR.'' Erès, . Collective work under the direction of F. Jeanson. *2005: ''La culture pratique du monde'', avec Philippe Forest et Patrick Champagne, Editions Cécile Defaut 2005 *2008–2009: ''Escales'', inédits, Éditions Le Bord de l'eau


About Francis Jeanson

* Marie-Pierre Ulloa, ''Francis Jeanson. Un intellectuel en dissidence de la Résistance à la guerre d'Algérie'', Berg International Editeurs, Paris, 2001, 286 p. * Marie-Pierre Ulloa, ' (Palo Alto, Stanford UP, 2008) . * ''Itinéraire d'un intellectuel engagé'', documentary film directed by Catherine de Grissac and Bernard Vrigon of the APDFJ. * ''Les valises du professeur Jeanson'', biographical essay by Dominique-Emmanuel Blanchard, , 2015


Filmography

* ''
La Chinoise ''La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la Chinoise: un film en train de se faire'' (English: ''The Chinese, or, rather, in the Chinese manner: a film in the making''), commonly referred to simply as ''La Chinoise'', is a 1967 French political film directed b ...
'', by
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, 1967 (Jeanson plays his own role in a discussion with
Anne Wiazemsky Anne Wiazemsky (14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017) was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's ''Au Hasard Balthazar'' (1966), and went on to appear in several ...
)


References

Jeanson appears under the pseudonym "Alexandre" in Maurienne's book ''Le déserteur'', a book forbidden when it was published in 1960, reissued in 2005 by Éditions L'Echappée.


External links


- Vidéos de Francis Jeanson par Dominique-Emmanuel Blanchard

- SOFOR : Francis Jeanson a fondé cette association en 1984

''Francis Jeanson, itinéraire d'un intellectuel engagé''
documentaire de Catherine de Grissac et Bernard Vrignon réalisé en 2011 published by
Mediapart ''Mediapart'' is an independent French investigative online newspaper created in 2008 by Edwy Plenel, former editor-in-chief of ''Le Monde''. ''Mediapart'' is published in French, English and Spanish. ''Mediapart's'' income is solely derived ...
in 2015
''Francis Jeanson pose ses valises''
on ''
Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...
'' '(4 August 2009)
Francis Jeanson
on Encyclopedia Universalis

on Alterinfo.net
Francis Jeanson
on INA.fr (19 July 1955)

on CAIRN

on CAIRN {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeanson, Francis 20th-century French philosophers Prix Fénéon winners People of the Algerian War 1922 births Politicians from Bordeaux 2009 deaths Free French military personnel of World War II