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Dominique Desanti
Dominique Desanti (1920 – April 8, 2011) was a French journalist, novelist, educator and biographer.
The daughter of a Russian immigrant, she was born Dominique Persky in Paris. She served in the French Resistance during the German occupation. She was a member of the French Communist Party from 1943 until 1956. Desanti was a correspondent for "L'Humanité" in the years following World War II. She also taught university in the United States.
Desanti was married to the philosopher Jean-Toussaint
by Vichy law, at Lycée Condorcet in Paris.
After coming back to Paris in May 1941, he participated in the founding of the underground group "Socialisme et Liberté" ("Socialism and Liberty") with other writers Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Toussaint Desanti, Dominique Desanti, Jean Kanapa, and École Normale students. In spring of 1941, Sartre suggested with "cheerful ferocity" at a meeting that the "Socialisme et Liberté" assassinate prominent war collaborators like Marcel Déat, but