Rémy Montagne

Rémy Montagne was born on 9 January 1917 in Mirabeau.[1] He was a member of the Association catholique de la jeunesse française as a young man.[2] He was an avid reader of Jacques Maritain and became friends with Maurice Blondel, two Catholic philosophers.[2]

During World War II, he was openly opposed to the Nazis.[2] In 1940, at a meeting of young Catholics in Aix-en-Provence, 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.[2] 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.[2]

Montagne started his career as a lawyer shortly after the war, in 1945.[1][2] He founded L’Eure-Éclair, a weekly newspaper, in 1954.[2]

He served as the Union for French Democracy member of the National Assembly for the 3rd district of Eure from 1958 to 1980.[2][3] 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.[2]

In 1985, he founded Ampère, a publishing house.[2] It changed its name to Média-Participations in 1989.[4]

He married Geneviève Michelin, the sister of automobile heir François Michelin, on 3 May 1945.[2] They had seven children.[2]

He died in 1991.[4] His biography, authored by Marie-Joëlle Guillaume, was published in 2010.[2][3]