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Speech by Peter Cohen at the opening of the roundabout John Paul Fonvieille
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends
, Jean-Paul
Fonvieille left us a sad December day ago 8 years. He succumbed to a terrible disease.
This was his last fight.
But his memory, she is ever present. As this is
memory of his grandfather, Maurice, resistance hero who died in exile in spring 1945. As this is
the memory of his father, Max, a teacher at Fermat leftist secularism pegged to the body. In
Fonvieille, we were teaching, secular, republican, left, from father to son.
can attest, Ms. Fonvieille, you who brought up Jean-Paul in the republican and secular values. You can attest, Jacqueline Fonvieille-Ferris, which you have received the same education as your brother.
I salute you and salute, of course, the companion of Jean-Paul, Christiane Desplats-Fonvieille, and his daughter Laura, who is now represented by his mother, Annie Laval.
Fonvieille John Paul was a strong personality of the left Toulouse. A left Toulouse embodied by Jaures and socialist mayors such as ... Billières or Badiou
As Jaurès, Jean-Paul Fonvieille was humanism, a desire that young people can access education, the constant concern for the fate of more humble , of the poor. As
Billières, He was a brilliant intellect, he had a real vision and ambition for Toulouse.
As Badiou, he was a man of conviction, deeply engaged in the fighting that menait.Il was, like himself, a professor of mathematics.
Fonvieille John Paul has always standing.
was a builder, not just a builder of ideas.
activist, labor activist, political activist, he was among those who think that the principles apply only if they distinguished themselves in action. And the action then feeds reflection.
man of ideas, practical man, he was primarily a Republican who, throughout his life, and whatever forms that may have been taking his activism, drew his commitment to the very foundations of the Republic: freedom, the equality, fraternity.
Freedom to defend his ideas, to denounce the rebellion.
Equal rights between French and immigrants, between men and women, between the excluded and others, equality of access to education.
fraternity with mankind, with the excluded, the abused, the exile. Fraternity also, with his comrades ...
He had, early on, choosing a life of service autres.Il was studying in high school math preparation Fermat when he joined the Young Communist revolutionary. He was 18
ans.C was in 1968. It remains to
LCR until 1991. It will be all the mobilizations against capitalism and Stalinism, against fascism, in international solidarity with the peoples of Vietnam, Spain, Poland, Latin America ...
He joined the Socialist Party and Socialist Left In 1995, section 12, the Mirail. This same year he was elected to the council of Toulouse, in opposition. Again, he participated in all debates, all the appointments that make the life of a city council, all confrontations.
And there were many.
He never gave up, abandoning, abdicate. He was in politics.
In 2001, he became the campaign director Francois Simon, the socialist party candidate for municipal elections.
Despite illness, tirelessly, he asserts the architect of assembly, political unity, the holder of leftist ideas. He led the campaign with all his might, with all his energy, his enthusiasm, his political acumen.
Before the campaign, he coauthored a book with Frank Simon, "Toulouse fracture," a theme he knew by heart. He viscerally
screwed him the idea that France, where the suburbs are forgotten, banished, scorned, is not worthy of being Republican.
He was deeply rooted in the Mirail district where everyone knew and respected him. I must say it was all the great battles on the difficulties encountered by residents, associations, youth Mirail.
During the riots in Reynerie in 1998, when neighborhoods were burning, he was one of the few to be able to discuss with young people angry to be able to explain that the claim does not pass through violence. He had this natural authority, legitimacy in the neighborhood, who were being listened to.
professor of math in high school multipurpose Rive Gauche du Mirail, it was the likes of Black Hussars of the Third Republic.
Lay, Republican Citizen, again and again.
He was among those who helped the school multipurpose to break the negative image attributed to him, to make a powerful institution. It was assumed that social diversity was primarily a source of wealth and success factor.
Always deeply convinced that the speech analysis, that matures in contact with reality, it was syndicated, upon its entry into teaching, SNES, the FEN unit of time, then the FSU, still active, leaving nothing happen when he believed that the cause deserved.
always antiracist activist, he quickly joined the founding team SOS Racisme in Toulouse and was elected to the National Council from 1987 to 1998.
He helped the people of Mirail to build great cultural adventure Roots Festival. He wanted to restore dignity to all those who lived in the neighborhood, showing the richness of their creativity, break the barriers of prejudice, mixing cultures, bringing the center to Mirail.
He assured every week for years and often alone, the permanence of Legal Aid of SOS Racism.
I am convinced that the current debate on national identity would have revolted, he who, during the course of beurs in Toulouse in 1983, already shouted in demonstrations: "couscous, cassoulet, same fight! "
For his contributions to the left Toulouse, for the values he stood for everything that Toulouse have him, I am proud to inaugurate this roundabout which now bears his name, d inasmuch as he is at the heart of Mirail, "his" neighborhood.
And let me say here, in front of his family, friends, comrades, that this district, we will not abandon it. I want, too, breaking down barriers, open borders, melt prejudice, restore dignity to each Mirail and its status as a full quarter with the same quality of life elsewhere.
I want to say here, unveiling the plaque that bears his name, the battle of John Paul were not in vain and that many of us have picked up this torch.
I would like to say that John Paul Fonvieille still lives in the heart and mind of each of us still live like Jaures Billières or Badiou.
Jaures said: "Courage is going to understand the ideal and real is to act and to give to great causes without knowing what reward Subject to our effort the deep universe, or if it provided a reward. Courage is to seek truth and tell it. .
Fonvieille John Paul, in the sense intended Jaures, was the bravest of men.
