Claude Roy

Claude Roy 28 August 1915 13 December 1997 was a French poet and essayist He was born and died in Paris After the fall of France during World War II Roy was captured as a prisoner of war He later escaped and joined the French resistance Initially associated with the political right by 1943 Roy drifted towards the left under the influence of Louis Aragon and adhered to the French Communist Party openly attacking fascism and Vichy sympathizers He left the Communist Party after the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and as a contributor to Le Nouvel Observateur became a fixture on the antitotalitarian left He was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121 in favor of Algerian independence Source Article Claude Roy poet from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30