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Philippe Viannay
Philippe Viannay (15 August 1917 - 27 November 1986) was a French journalist.
School foundation.
He founded the Centre de formation des journalistes, and, later, the sailing school "Les Glénans".
French resistance.
During World War II, he led a resistance movement named Défense de la France. They printed an underground journal which distributed up to 400,000 copies.
Personal.
The Canadian journalist Caitlin Kelly—who studied with Viannay at the Centre in Paris on an eighth
had a clearly defined role in the hierarchy of the movement, which in her case involved the regional Southern Liberation. Hélène Viannay, more highly educated than her husband Philippe Viannay, the founder of the Défense de la France, did not write one single article for the clandestine newspaper of the same name, nor did the other companions of the chiefs of the Défense de la France, although they did take part in meetings to edit the newspaper. On the other hand, Suzanne Buisson, cofounder of the Comité d'action socialiste (