# Claude Estier
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{{Short description|French politician and journalist}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name = Claude Estier
| image = Claude Estier (19e Maghreb des Livres, Paris, 16 fév. 2013) (cropped).jpg
| office1 = Member of the [French Senate](/source/Senate_(France))
| constituency1 = Paris
| term_start1 = 1 October 1986
| term_end1 = 30 September 2004
| office2 = [Member of the French National Assembly](/source/National_Assembly_of_France)
| constituency2 = {{ill|Paris's 25th constituency|fr|Vingt-cinquième circonscription de Paris de 1958 à 1986}}
| term_start2 = [23 June 1981](/source/1981_French_legislative_election)
| term_end2 = [27 June 1986](/source/1986_French_legislative_election)
| office3 = [Member of the European Parliament](/source/Member_of_the_European_Parliament)
| constituency3 = France
| term_start3 = [21 June 1979](/source/1979_European_Parliament_election_in_France)
| term_end3 = 16 April 1981{{efn |group=note |He had to quit before the end of his term as he was elected in 1981 to the French National Assembly}}
| other_party = [PS](/source/Socialist_Party_(France))
| office4 = [Member of the French National Assembly](/source/National_Assembly_of_France)
| constituency4 = {{ill|Paris's 25th constituency|fr|Vingt-cinquième circonscription de Paris de 1958 à 1986}}
| term_start4 = [25 June 1967](/source/1967_French_legislative_election)
| term_end4 = [24 June 1968](/source/1968_French_legislative_election)
| birth_name = Claude Hasday Ezratty
| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|06|08|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Paris](/source/Paris), France
| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|03|10|1925|06|08|df=yes}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| party = [French Section of the Workers' International](/source/French_Section_of_the_Workers'_International) (1945-1947), Unitary Socialist Party (1948), [Convention of Republican Institutions](/source/Convention_of_Republican_Institutions) (1964-1971), [Socialist Party](/source/Socialist_Party_(France)) (1971-2016)
| alma_mater = [Sciences Po](/source/Sciences_Po)
}}
'''Claude Estier''' (born '''Claude Hasday Ezratty''';{{efn |group=note |He became officially "Claude Estier" by a decree published in the [Official Journal](/source/Journal_Officiel_de_la_R%C3%A9publique_Fran%C3%A7aise) on 11 September 1983}} 8 June 1925 – 10 March 2016)[[http://www.senat.fr/senateur/estier_claude86025d.html CV at Senate website] {{in lang|fr}}.] was a French politician and journalist. He was [deputy](/source/National_Assembly_(France)) of Paris from 1967 to 1968 and again from 1981 to 1986, then senator from 1986 to 2004 and was president of the [socialist](/source/Socialism) group in the [Senate](/source/Senate_of_France) from 1988 to 2004.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Estier's father was a supporter of the [French Section of the Workers' International](/source/French_Section_of_the_Workers'_International) (SFIO). Because of this, Estier grew up in a [socialist](/source/Socialism) culture throughout his youth. His professors included Robert Verdier and [Maurice Merleau-Ponty](/source/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty).
===Resistance===
Estier participated in the [Résistance](/source/French_Resistance) in 1942, engaging in the carriage of arms and newspapers in [Lyon](/source/Lyon) until 1944. In charge of reports of listening to ''[Radio Londres](/source/Radio_Londres)'' and Radio Algiers, the [Free France](/source/Free_France) broadcasts, he ended the war in the [French Forces of the Interior](/source/French_Forces_of_the_Interior).
In 1945, he then became a member of the centre-left [French Section of the Workers' International](/source/French_Section_of_the_Workers'_International) (SFIO). A very critical article on the SFIO Interior Minister [Jules Moch](/source/Jules_Moch)'s harsh repression of the [1947 strikes](/source/1947_strikes_in_France) published in the newspaper [Combat](/source/Combat_(newspaper)) at the end of 1947 led to his exclusion from the party.
He campaigned in 1948 for the Unitary Socialist Party{{efn |group=note |Not to be confused with the later [Unified Socialist Party](/source/Unified_Socialist_Party_(France)) (PSU), of whom Gilles Martinet was a cofounder}} where he met, among others, Gilles Martinet and Pierre Stibbe. All three were former Résistance fighters who advocated a left-wing political line between the [French Communist Party](/source/French_Communist_Party) and the anti-communist SFIO.
===Journalist===
In 1955 he joined the political editorial team of daily newspaper ''[Le Monde](/source/Le_Monde)'', then quit it in 1958 because of the newspaper's "{{lang|fr|attentiste}}" attitude towards the return to power of [General de Gaulle](/source/Charles_de_Gaulle).[{{cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2016/03/10/l-ancien-senateur-claude-estier-est-mort_4880572_3382.html|title=L'ancien sénateur Claude Estier est mort|date=10 March 2016|publisher=Le Monde|language=French|accessdate=11 March 2016}}] He then joined another newspaper, [Libération](/source/Lib%C3%A9ration_(newspaper%2C_1941-1964)) and began a rapprochement with [François Mitterrand](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand). He was part of the original core of the weekly [Nouvel Observateur](/source/Le_Nouvel_Observateur).
He was a long-time supporter of the Algerian cause, establishing ties with [Algeria](/source/Algeria)n [nationalists](/source/Nationalism) such as [Ferhat Abbas](/source/Ferhat_Abbas).
==Political career==
===National Assembly===
He was elected as a candidate for Mitterrand's [Convention of Republican Institutions](/source/Convention_of_Republican_Institutions), part of the [Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left](/source/Federation_of_the_Democratic_and_Socialist_Left) electoral coalition, in the [legislative election of 1967](/source/1967_French_legislative_election) against Alexandre Sanguinetti, [Minister of Veterans and War Victims](/source/List_of_French_Ministers_of_Veterans_Affairs) in the third [Pompidou](/source/Georges_Pompidou) government under [President de Gaulle](/source/Charles_de_Gaulle). He lost his seat the following year, after the early dissolution of the National Assembly in the aftermath of the [May 1968 events](/source/May_1968_events_in_France).
He was elected again in [1981](/source/1981_French_legislative_election) and became chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the [National Assembly](/source/National_Assembly_(France)) from 1983 to 1986.
He had put a provisional end to his activities as a [journalist](/source/journalism) in 1967, but from 1972 to 1986 he led the official weekly of the [Socialist Party](/source/Socialist_Party_(France)), ''L'Unité''. From 1981 to 1988, he regularly took part as such in the animated weekly political debate ''Vendredi Soir'' on [France Inter](/source/France_Inter) with [Jean d'Ormesson](/source/Jean_d'Ormesson) (a right-wing journalist and writer), Pierre Charpy (his counterpart as head of ''La Lettre de la Nation'', the weekly of the [Rally for the Republic](/source/Rally_for_the_Republic)) and Roland Leroy (editor-in-chief of the Communist daily ''[L'Humanité](/source/L'Humanit%C3%A9)'').
===Senate===
In 1986, he entered the [Senate](/source/French_Senate) in 1988 and became President of the Socialist Group until his retirement in October 2004.
==Post-Senator career==
After this, he returned to writing about history and politics by publishing four new books with Le Cherche-Midi, including ''[François Hollande](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hollande): journal d'une victoire'' (2012).
===Elected offices held===
*Deputy representing Paris (1967-1968 and 1981-1986)
*Paris City councillor (1971-1989 and 1995-2001)
*Member of the European Parliament (1979-1981)
*Île-de-France regional councilor (1981-1986)
*Senator representing Paris (1986-2004)
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