Rémy Montagne (9 January 1917 – 10 January 1991) was a French lawyer, politician and media proprietor. He was a member of the
National Assembly
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from 1958 to 1980.
Early life
Rémy Montagne was born on 9 January 1917 in Mirabeau.National Assembly /ref> He was a member of the
Association catholique de la jeunesse française
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Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain (; 18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised Protestant, he was agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive Thomas Aquinas fo ...
and became friends with Maurice Blondel, two Catholic philosophers.
During World War II, he was openly opposed to the Nazis. In 1940, at a meeting of young Catholics in
Aix-en-Provence
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, he expressed his intention to fight back against the German invaders, adding that the real battle consisted in resisting against the totalitarianism of the Hitlerian ideology. Six months later, he lost an eye in battle, and his brother Martial was deported to the Dora concentration camp, where he was murdered by the Nazis.
Career
Montagne started his career as a lawyer shortly after the war, in 1945. He founded ''L’Eure-Éclair'', a weekly newspaper, in 1954.
He served as the
Union for French Democracy
The Union for French Democracy (french: Union pour la démocratie française, UDF) was a centre to centre-right political party in France. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in order ...
member of the
National Assembly
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for the 3rd district of
Eure
Eure () is a department in Normandy in Northwestern France, named after the river Eure. Its prefecture is Évreux. In 2019, Eure had a population of 599,507.Audrey Levy Rémy Montagne, une foi inébranlable ''Le Point'', December 23, 2010 He was then appointed Secretary of State to the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, where he served for nine months between 1980 and 1981.
In 1985, he founded Ampère, a publishing house. It changed its name to Média-Participations in 1989.Marie-Joëlle Guillaume Rémy Montagne : le rayonnement d'un chrétien engagé ''Famille chrétienne'', February 3, 2001
Personal life
He married Geneviève Michelin, the sister of automobile heir
François Michelin
François Michelin (15 June 1926 – 29 April 2015) was a French heir and businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Michelin from 1955 to 1999. Under his leadership, a family business founded by his grandfather became the leading gl ...
, on 3 May 1945. They had seven children.
Death
He died in 1991. His biography, authored by Marie-Joëlle Guillaume, was published in 2010.