Un temps pour la guerre et un temps pour la paix. Itinéraire franciscain de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle : Bertrand Duclos (1917-1995)

摘要

A Time for War and a Time for Peace. A Franciscain Itinerary in the Second half of the 20th Century : Bertrand Duclos (1917-1995). Born into a family from the Hautes-Pyrénées in which only the mother was pious, Louis Duclos pursued solid studies which could have led to a military career. Made a prisoner during the Second World War, his captivity in an Oflag in eastern Pomerania, his escape, what he saw during the “ liberation” of the Eastern front and in Berlin by Soviet troops transformed him. Following Saint Francis of Assisi, he became Brother Bertrand. He became active within different structures of civil society and in his religious family in the anti-colonial movement, for the Algerian National Liberation Front, in favor of immigrants and Basque nationalism. His militantism led him to criticize established order within society and within the Church even as he accepted responsabilities within the Aquitaine province of the Franciscan order. His itinerary is one of many Christian rebel spirits from the 1950s to the 1990s.