Jean-Marie Domenach

Jean-Marie Domenach (1922–1997) was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker.

He took over in 1957 the editorship of Esprit, the literary and political journal of personalism founded in 1945 by Emmanuel Mounier and continued from 1950 to 1957 by Albert Béguin. He retired voluntarily from this aged 54, then writing and teaching at university level. Opposed to torture during the Algerian War, he also held a meeting denouncing the 1961 Paris massacre.

He studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon.

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