Guy Lardreau


Guy Lardreau was a French philosopher.
Lardreau is the youngest of four children. His father and mother are both teachers. In April 1971, he married Nicole Péaud-Lenoël, with whom he had a son, Jacques. In December 1994, he became the husband of Esther Cotelle.
He completed his secondary studies at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. In 1964, he received first prize in philosophy in the Concours général, and entered the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he prepared for the rue d'Ulm competition. His philosophy teachers were René Schérer, in hypokhâgne, and Louis Guillermit, in khâgne. It was in hypokhâgne that he met Michel Guérin, with whom he became lifelong friends.
In 1966, he published his first novel, Les Cheveux d'Epsilon, in the Mercure de France, in the L'Initiale collection. Until the end of April 1968, he was active within the Leo Frankel cell of Louis-le-Grand, in the Union of Marxist-Leninist Communist Youth. In May 1968, he organized, with other activists, demonstrations in the suburbs, and during the following month, he campaigned within the Movement in Support of the People's Struggles. In September 1968, he participated in the small founding group of the Proletarian Left; he first contributed, with Christian Jambet, to rallying the high school sector of the UJCml, then campaigned at the Goutte d'Or, and became editor-in-chief of the newspaper La Cause du peuple, until the merger of La Cause du peuple and J'accuse in 1971 where, at about the same time as Jean-Claude Milner, he left the proletarian left.

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