Gaston Revel

Biography

Gaston Revel, born in Laure-Minervois (Aude) on February 20, 1915, and died on January 27, 2001, in Carcassonne, was a French anti-colonial communist activist. He was a schoolteacher, a communist municipal councilor in Bougie (representing the second electoral district, a nearly unique case in Algeria), head of the local CGT union, and a local correspondent for the newspaper Alger Républicain.

Born in the Aude region, he entered the teacher training college in Carcassonne in October 1933. In September 1936, he transferred to the teacher training college in Bouzaréah, near Algiers, to learn how to teach the "natives." Politically, Gaston Revel was initially drawn to the SFIO (French Section...