This book deserves of being in any library, the publication of the newspaper Gift & Solitude Belin editions involved in the rehabilitation of the Jean Zay memory defending a certain idea of the Republic. Indeed, today, although about one hundred and fifty schools now bear his name, "Jean Zay noccupe quune modest and secondary place in our political memory" notes historian Antoine Prost. Essential reading for younger generations to know LOEUVRE the Minister of Education and Fine Arts, which is the youngest minister of the IIIrd Republic 32 years and 39 months remained in business. Notwithstanding own hateful political context to the 30s, the action of the Ministerial Minister Jean Zay is loud and visionary: There impulse deep reforms lenseignement school and technique: it introduces in its draft school law, the orientation to taste and abilities of students, aroused by an innovative pedagogy. This deeply renovated education system will be integrated into a totality of multiple extracurricular activities, including physical léducation. It extends the obligation school until age 14 and doubles classes from 35 students. In lenseignement superior, he doubled the number of scholarships and created in July 1936 the Higher Committee for social work for students, ancestor of the CROUS. He filed a bill on the creation dune dadministration National School. It is indeed the state to control the education of officials who will serve him, and to guarantee to all equal access to public careers. "What child of the people has never been ambassador? "He says. The bill, passed by the House in 1938, is blocked in the Senate. It will lead postwar in 1945 as part of the implementation of the National Council of Resistance program. It creates with the scientist Jean Perrin's national center for scientific research (CNRS) and gives a legal definition of a status of researchers. He fights for increased funding of research that go from 15 million francs in 1936 to 35 million francs in 1939. It supports artists and creators by a law reform project dauteur and editing contract coming to fill a legal vacuum: he participated in the birth of the intellectual property law in positive law némergera quen 1957. He reformed the National Archives and the National Library on oriented readings and, through advances of the popular front in terms of paid leave, reduction in working time to 40 hours, Jean Zay develops the opening of museums and theater the popular classes. It also supports music in the creation of national opera houses by a law of 14 January 1939. It is the origin of the creation of the first Cannes festival that should have taken place from 3 to 20 September 1939 in response to the film charts fascist orientation of the Venice Film Festival. After the declaration of the Second World War and the trip on the steamer Massalia Completion Morocco with other MPs opposed the armistice. There are returned in France and John Zay interned on August 20 at the military prison of Clermont-Ferrand where it writes its newspaper Gift & Solitude transmitted through his wife Madeleine. Denounced for months by a violent press campaign publishing his secret notebooks orchestrated by Philippe Henriot, Minister of the Government Information in Vichy, which demands the death sentence of Jean Zay as a Jew, a freemason, anti-Munich, and anti-Hitler Minister of the Popular Front. On 4 October 1940, the Permanent Military Tribunal of the 13th military division, based in Clermont-Ferrand, condemned for desertion as an officer in the presence of the enemy to life deportation and military degradation. On 20 June 1944, the militia of Joseph Darnand pick him to prison on the pretext of a transfer to the Melun prison, let him hear then they are disguised resistant whose mission is to make him join the maquis and murder in a wood, near an abandoned quarry, at a place called "The Malavaux" in Molles, in Allier. Exhumed in late 1947, the remains of Jean Zay are identified through his dental records and measurements given by his tailor. Judged in February 1953, the militia is condemned to death by the military court in Lyon and shot. Jean Zay is buried in the main cemetery of Orleans since 15 May 1948.
