Guy Gilbert
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Father Guy Gilbert (born 12 September 1935) is a French Roman Catholic priest and educator.
Born in Rochefort, Gilbert was educated at a seminary in Algeria and ministered in Algiers until 1970. He returned to France, to Paris, where he specialised in working with juvenile delinquents in the working-class XIXe arrondissement where there was a sizable pied noir community. He purchased a farm in southern France, in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and established the Bergerie du Faucon centre where troubled youngsters might be reeducated and reintegrated into society through work, contact with animals and nature, and self-respect.
A regular radio correspondent with Radio Notre-Dame, a frequent interviewee on television, a journalist with La Croix, and a prolific author, Guy Gilbert's appearance—his greying hair is long and flowing and he is usually seen in a battered leather jacket— and language are unorthodox. Former President Jacques Chirac made him a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He received the award from Abbé Pierre.
[edit] Select Bibliography
- (French) Un prêtre chez les loubards, Stock, 1978
- (French) La rue est mon église, Stock, 1980
- (French) Des jeunes y entrent, des fauves en sortent, Stock, 1982
- (French) L'espérance aux mains nues, Stock, 1984
- (French) Aventurier de l'amour, Stock, 1986
- (French) Avec mon aube et mes santiags, Stock, 1988
- (French) Les petits pas de l'amour, Stock, 1990
- (French) Jusqu'au bout, Stock,
- (French) Dieu, mon premier Amour, Stock, 1995
- (French) Des loups dans la bergerie, Stock, 1996
- (French) Dealer d'amour, Stock, 1996
- (French) Cris de Jeunes, Salvator, 2003
- (French) Kamikaze de l'espérance, 2005
- (French) Et si je me confessais, Stock, 2007
- (French) Rallumez le feu, Philippe Rey, 2007
- (French) L'Évangile, une parole invincible, Points-Seuil, 2007
