Alex Moscovitch

Alex Moscovitch (English: Alex Moskovitch, French: Alex Moscovitch, Ukrainian: Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Moscovitch, Russian: Aleksey Aleksandrovich Moscovitch) (1911, Kyiv (Kiev) – 1996, Paris) was a French politician and analyst. He was also an associate and companion of General Charles de Gaulle.

Alex Moscovitch

After the Russian Civil War the Moscovitch family emigrated to France. In 1931, Moscovitch's parents returned to Kiev, where his father was executed in 1935. Moscovitch was then serving in the French Armed Forces, so he stayed in France.

Resistance

Alex Moscovitch joins the Free French Forces as of 3 July 1940, then participates on campaigns of Africa, France and Germany.[1]

City Councillor of Paris

From 1947 to 1966, Alex Moscovitch was a city councilor of Paris.[2]

The Algerian War

During the debate in the municipal council of Paris, on the Paris massacre of 1961 (17 October 1961), Alex Moscovitch makes a remark that will be reproached to him. Anne Chemin in Le Monde, of 17 October 2011, writes:[3] "Le 27 octobre 1961, Claude Bourdet, directeur du magazine France Observateur demande -en vain - une commission d'enquête du conseil municipal de Paris. "Ce qu'il nous faut, c'est très simple et très clair: l'autorisation et suffisamment de bateaux (pour y mettre les Algériens), répond le conseiller Alex Moscovitch. Le problème qui consisterait à faire couler ces bateaux ne relève pas, hélas, du conseil municipal de Paris." ("The weaker, they finished them until death" .The circumstances of the death of a hundred Algerian demonstrators killed by the police on October 17, 1961, in Paris, have long been overshadowed: "On October 27, 1961, Claude Bourdet, director of the magazine France Observateur, asked in vain for a commission of inquiry from the Paris municipal council. What we need is very simple and clear: the authorization and enough boats (to put the Algerians there), "replied Councilor Alex Moscovitch. The problem of sinking these boats is not, alas, the responsibility of the municipal council of Paris.")

Important dates in life and work

Publications
  • Le Temps des Puaises (Mar 24, 1977; ISBN 978-2710316879), a book of memories about French politics and personal life

Bibliography
  • Philippe Nivet. Le Conseil municipal de Paris de 1944 à 1977, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1994
  • Simon Sadler. The Situationist City. MIT Press, 1999 ISBN 0262692252, ISBN 9780262692250[4]

References
  1. See, (in French) Philippe Nivet. Le Conseil Municipal de Paris de 1944 à 1977, sous le RPF en 1947 et en 1953, 19.
  2. See, (in French) 1967. Paris. panneaux électoraux, Place de la Bourse.
  3. See, (in French) Anne Chemin. "Les plus faibles, ils les achevaient jusqu'à la mort". Les circonstances de la mort d'une centaine de manifestants Algériens tués par la police, le 17 octobre 1961, à Paris, ont longtemps été occultées. Le Monde, 17 octobre 2011.
  4. See, Simon Sadler. The Situationist City, 1999, p. 62.
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