Robert Bonnaud [SEP] place of death
Robert Bonnaud
Robert Bonnaud (13 November 1929 – 22 January 2013) was a French anti-colonialist historian and professor of history at the Paris VII Jussieu University.
In 1957, following the advice of his friend Pierre Vidal-Naquet, he published in "Esprit" an article entitled "La Paix des Nementchas" ("Nementchas’ Peace"), where he denounced massacres he witnessed made by the French army in Algeria, on the 25th and 26 October 1956. In June 1961, he was arrested and
included Robert Bonnaud, who published on counsel of his friend Pierre Vidal-Naquet an article in 1956 in "L'Esprit", a personalist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier (1905–1950). Bonnaud was later imprisoned in June 1961, on a charge of supporting the FLN. Pierre Vidal-Naquet, one of the many signatories to the "Manifeste des 121" against torture, wrote a book, "L'Affaire Audin" (1957), and, as a historian, would continue to work on the Algerian War all his life