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Pierre Gascar
Pierre Fournier, better known as Pierre Gascar (13 March 1916 in Paris – 20 February 1997 in Lons-le-Saunier), was a French journalist, literary critic, writer, essayist and screenwriter.
Biography.
Born in Paris in 1916 to a working-class family, Pierre Gascar lived part of his childhood in Périgord after his mother was institutionalised. His troubled childhood would later inspire him to write "La Graine" and "Meilleur de la Vie". Returning to Paris after completing
(novelist under the name of Pierre Gascar), anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, biologist Konrad Lorenz, anthropologist Théodore Monod and biologist Jean Rostand.
Friends of the Earth were among the first organisations to push for environmental candidates in political elections, such as René Dumont who ran for president in 1974 as the first ecologist candidate and who later became honorary president of the association. Afterwards, the group also attracted activists such as Pierre Radanne (ex-director of the ADEME) and Dominique Voynet (Environment Planning Minister in 1997