Rémy Montagne

French lawyer, politician, and media proprietor

Rémy Montagne (French: [ʁemi mɔ̃taɲ]; 9 January 1917 – 10 January 1991) was a French lawyer, politician and media proprietor. He was a member of the National Assembly from 1958 to 1980.2

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Born Jan 9, 1917, died Jan 10, 1991.1

Companies

Early life and education

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

During World War II, he was openly opposed to the Nazis. 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. 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.

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Career

Occupation: politician.5

  • 1967 to 1968Member of the French National Assembly4
  • 1962 to 1967Member of the French National Assembly4
  • 1958 to 1962Member of the French National Assembly4
  • Date not recordedFounded Média-Participations3
  • Date not recordedSenator of the Community4
  • Date not recordedMayor of a place in France4

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

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

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

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Personal life

  • BornJan 9, 1917, Mirabeau6
  • DiedJan 10, 1991, Louviers7
  • CitizenshipFrance8
  • SpouseGeneviève Michelin9

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

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