Christian Chabanis (9 August 1936 – 25 April 1989) was a French writer, philosopher and journalist.

Biography

A journalist, essayist and novelist, he was also the author of numerous books on fundamental reflections and surveys on the place of faith and the Catholic Church in the modern world and also on death and childhood. He was awarded the

Grand prix catholique de littérature The grand prix catholique de littérature is a French literary prize awarded by the Association des écrivains catholiques de langue française (established in 1886). History Established in 1945 (prix du Renouveau français) under the impulse of ...

in 1985. He created the series "Verse et controverse" at éditions Beauchesne. He rests in the cemetery of

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Bibliography

Works

*1964: '' Jeanne de Flandreysy ou la passion de la gloire'' *1967: ''Les jeunes d'aujourd'hui : découverte de soi-enseignement'', Jean Camp, Christian Chabanis,

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*1967: '' Gustave Thibon témoin de la lumière'',

*1975: ''Entretiens'', Gustave Thibon, éditions

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*1977: ''Bâtisseur de cathédrales'', éditions S.O.S. *1979: ''Dieu existe ? Oui'', interviews with

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Robert Hossein Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed Les Misérables (1982 film), the 1982 adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and appeared in ''Vice and Virtue'', ''Le Casse'', ''Les U ...

, Joseph Fontanet, ,

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*1981: ''Jean-Paul I'', illustrated by Jacques Poirier, édition le Sarment *1982: ''Jean Salusse'', édition de la Caisse nationale des monuments historiques et des sites *1982: ''La mort, un terme ou un commencement'', interviews with

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Jérôme Lejeune Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (; 13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist. He is best known for his work on the links between chromosome abnormalities and diseases like Down Syndrome ( trisomy-21) and cri du ...

, Francis Jeanson, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Luis Miguel Dominguín,

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, Ariane Mnouchkine,

Jean Dausset Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset (19 October 1916 – 6 June 2009) was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell f ...

, etc., édition Fayard *1982: ''Dieu existe ? Non'', interviews with

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Jacques Duclos Jacques Duclos (; 2 October 189625 April 1975) was a French Communist politician and member of Communist International (Comintern) who played a key role in French politics from 1926, when he entered the French National Assembly after defeating ...

Roger Garaudy Roger Garaudy (; 17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982. In 1998, he was convicted for several years and fined for Holocaust denial under French law ...

, Pierre Debray-Ritzen,

Alfred Grosser Alfred Grosser (1 February 1925 – 7 February 2024) was a German-born French writer, sociologist and political scientist. Although his Jewish family had to move from Frankfurt to France in 1933, he focused on Franco-German cooperation after Wor ...

Daniel Guérin Daniel Guérin (; 19 May 1904 – 14 April 1988) was a French libertarian-communist author, best known for his work '' Anarchism: From Theory to Practice'', as well as his collection ''No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism'' in which h ...

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, Isabelle Meslin,

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, Henri Petit,

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and

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, Stock *1984: ''Il était une fois l'enfant'', Fayard *1985: ''À ceux qui ne croient plus en rien, ni en personne'', Fayard *1987: ''Au nom du pauvre'', éditions S.O.S *1991: ''Obsession de Dieu : les chemins de ma vie'',

Forewords and articles

* « Joseph Delteil au cœur du monde », in ''France Catholique'', Christian Chabanis, ''

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'', 30 December 1961. * « Poésies françaises du félibre Marius André », foreword by Christian Chabanis, publisher Napoli, 1963 * « Montherlant encombré de Dieu ? », Christian Chabanis, ''

Les Nouvelles littéraires ''Les Nouvelles littéraires'' was a French literary and artistic newspaper created in October 1922 by the Éditions Larousse. It disappeared in 1985 after having taken the title '. History ''Les Nouvelles littéraires'' were headed by from 192 ...

'', 23 January 1964 * « Malraux et la crise de notre temps », ''La France catholique'', 13 November 1970 * «

et l'espérance blessée », ''La France Catholique'', 11 June 1971 * « L'essai est-il un genre ? », ''Les Nouvelles littéraires'' 7 January 1973 * «

Colette Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known as Colette or Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a Mime artist, mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaki ...

aujourd'hui », ''Les Nouvelles littéraires'' 29 January 1973 * « Barrault, le héraut de Zarathoustra », ''La France catholique'', 7 February 1975 * « Le charme discret des gares provinciales », Caisse nationale des monuments historiques n°6, 1978 * « Comme l'or purifié par le feu », Edith Stein (1891–1942), Elisabeth Miribel, foreword by Christian Chabanis, Éditions Plon, Paris, February 1984 * « Révolution artistique et création artistique », Éditions de la Table ronde, n°. 251-2, December 1968 * « Les Juifs », dialogue between

Jean Daniélou Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou (; 14 May 1905 – 20 May 1974) was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist, theologian and historian and a member of the Académie française. Biography Early life and studies Jean ...

and

André Chouraqui Nathan André Chouraqui (; 11 August 1917 – 9 July 2007) was a French- Algerian- Israeli lawyer, writer, scholar and politician. Early life Chouraqui was born in Aïn Témouchent, Algeria. His parents, Isaac Chouraqui and Meleha Meyer, both ...

, dialogues directed by Jean-Marie Aubert and Christian Chabanis, series ''Verse et controverse'', cahier 1, éditions Beauchesne, 1966 * « Chrétien de droite ou de gauche », dialogue between

Jean de Fabrègues Jean d'Azémar de Fabrègues (; 8 January 1906 – 23 November 1983) was a French Catholic intellectual and journalist. He was a "traditional" Catholic, rejecting the materialism of both liberal democracy and the totalitarian regimes of the right ...

and , dialogues directed by Jean-Marie Aubert and Christian Chabanis, Collection ''Verse et controverse'', Cahier 2, éditions Beauchesne, 1966 * « Les Jeunes d'aujourd'hui : Découverte de soi, enseignement, culture, création, mort, révolte », Christian Chabanis et Jean Camp, 1967 * « Le village accroché, reflets de Bigorre », nouvelles de DABADIE Maïté, foreword by Christian Chabanis, 1976 * « Du Cantal au Kiang Si - La mère de chez nous » de Gauthier Jacques-Prosper, foreword by Christian Chabanis, 1984

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