Guy Gilbert

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Guy Gilbert in 2009

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.

Guy Gilbert is thought to be a mentor of and a father figure for Prince Laurent of Belgium. In 2003, he married Laurent and Claire Coombs at the St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. In 2011, he took part in the First Communion of their daughter Princess Louise.

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 appearancehis 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.

==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 == Beknopte bibliografie == * Template:Fr icoon Un Prêtre chez les loubards, Stock, 1978 * Template:Fr icoon La rue est ma eglise, Stock, 1980 * (French) Des jeunes y entrent, des Fauves en sortent, Stock, 1982 * Template:Fr icoon L'Esperance aux lichtnet nues, Stock, 1984 * Template:Fr icoon aventurier de l'amour, Stock, 1986 * Template:Fr icoon Avec mon aube et mes santiags, Stock, 1988 * Template:Fr icoon Les petits pas de l'amour , Stock, 1990 * Template:Fr icoon Jusqu'au wedstrijd, Stock, * Template:Fr icoon Dieu, mon premier Amour, Stock, 1995 * Template:Fr icoon ' 'Des loups dans la bergerie, Stock, 1996 * Template:Fr icoon Dealer d'amour, Stock, 1996 * Template:Fr icoon Cris de Jeunes, Salvator, 2003 * Template:Fr icoon Kamikaze de l'Esperance, 2005 * Template:Fr icoon Et si je me confessais, Stock, 2007 * Template:Fr icoon Rallumez le feu ' 'Philippe Rey, 2007 * Template:Fr icoon L'Évangile, une parole onoverwinnelijk,dog, herinnert-Seuil, 2007

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