Georges Mattéi, Franc-tireur

Jean-Luc Einaudi

isbn 9788897982654, Digital Index Publisher, Modena, 2013

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New digital edition, expanded with documents, photos, interviews, videos and unpublished texts on Georges Mattéi .

Georges Mattéi was by turns a soldier in Algeria, a smuggler, a forger, a journalist and a writer. He met many of the great figures of his time, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Fidel Castro and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, whom he smuggled into France in May 1968. "The heroes of my youth are not footballers, entrepreneurs, humanitarian experts, nuns of charity or television presenters. In my pantheon there is room for poets, those who do not accept defeat, those who do not listen to economic fundamentalists, those who do not submit to American subculture, those who do not accept the 'end of history'..."

An unpublished story, an extraordinary fresco. The biography of a man, the portrait of an era.

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Jean-Luc Einaudi was born in Paris in 1951. His father, of Italian origin, was a factory worker and his mother an employee. He spent his childhood in the Parisian suburbs, in Alfortville, where he attended primary school.

The family moved to Brittany, to the town of Fougères, and the young teenager became interested in the revolutionary movements that shook the world, especially Latin America, and was part of the generation that rebelled against the American war in Vietnam. He read the newspaper "L'Humanité nouvelle" and discovered some of Mao Tse-tung's works. In 1968, as a high school student, together with trade unionists, he took an active part in the popular movement that shook the town of Fougères and the rest of France.

Back in Paris, while studying philosophy and working as a teacher, he became increasingly involved in militant activism by writing for the newspaper "L'Humanité rouge". In 1982, after taking stock of the realities of socialism in history and in the world, he broke with his political commitment. He became an educator for young people in difficulty in the Parisian suburbs and remained so until his retirement in 2011.

From 1982, he began research on the Algerian war period and published his first book in 1986. Jean-Luc Einaudi was particularly known for his role in the knowledge and recognition of the massacre of Algerians in Paris in October 1961, by the French police.

Jean-Luc Einaudi died on March 22, 2013 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Franc-tireur, new expanded edition Unpublished photos and documents, including:

• Manuscript on his meeting with Jean-Paul Sartre
• Interviews by Jean-Luc Einaudi with Gérard Chaliand, Raymond Dahm, Robert Davezies, Douglas Bravo, Sidar Fawzy, Adolfo Kaminsky, François Maspero, Jean-Claude Paupert, Jean-Jacques Porchez

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Testimony of Georges Mattei at the 20th anniversary of the FLN demonstration of 17 October 1961 in Paris against the curfew, Antenne 2, Giornale delle 20:00, 17 October 1981. INA Archives.

Full version of the film "Fuera Yankis!" by Georges Mattei, Saint Domingue, 1966, duration 37 minutes.

[...] In May 1966, at the request of his Dominican friends, Georges Mattei left for Santo Domingo to make a film while elections were being held under the control of American troops. The film was titled " Fuera Yankis! " Dedicated " "In Memory of the Victims of the April 1965 Revolution", describes the conduct of crudely rigged elections that allowed the victory of Joaquín Balaguer, the heir of the dictator Rafael Trujillo, with the support of the United States, against Juan Bosch. [...]

Book presentation on December 12, 2013 at iReMMO - Institute for Research and Studies on the Mediterranean and the Middle East - L'Harmattan Méditerranée & Moyen Orient bookshop.