Philippe Viannay
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Philippe Viannay (French pronunciation: [filip vjanɛ]; 15 August 1917, Saint-Jean-de-Bournay - 27 November 1986) was a French journalist.
He founded the Centre de formation des journalistes, and, later, the sailing school Les Glénans.
French resistance
During World War II, he led a resistance movement named Défense de la France. They printed an underground journal which distributed up to 400,000 copies.[1]
Personal
The Canadian journalist Caitlin Kelly—who studied with Viannay at the Centre in Paris on an eighth-month journalism fellowship—later described him as "the most inspiring man I've ever met."[2]
