Albert-Marie Gordiani : [Fonds], 1943-1998

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Label

Albert-Marie Gordiani : [Fonds], 1943-1998

Title remainder

[Fonds]

Inclusive dates

1943-1998

Creator

• Gordiani, Albert-Marie

Subject

• Constitutional law -- France
• Correspondence
• Council of European Municipalities and Regions -- History -- Sources
• European federation -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• Federal government -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• Gordiani, Albert-Marie -- Correspondence
• Law reform -- France
• Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens
• Mouvement féderaliste européen -- History -- Sources
• Regionalism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Rhône-Alpes (France) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Union européenne des fédéralistes -- Administration
• Young European Federalists
• Mouvement féderaliste européen -- France -- History -- Sources

Genre

• Sources
• Correspondence

Language

• fre
• ita
• gerbeng
• fre

Summary

The fonds comprises material on the federalist movements that flourished starting 1944 which was based on the idea that social groups or communities could freely organise into a federation and be represented before the State. To this end, they considered it necessary to reform the country's structure. In addition, they aimed at establishing an international federated order in which "the various countries must articulate their complementary diversities under the arbitration of a common political authority". In October 1944 the "Fédération" was founded in Paris. While preserving its own status, the Fédération joined the Union of European Federalists (UEF) formed in 1946. Under the authority of its leaders the Fédération established a series of related but autonomous federal organizations: the French Federalist Movement, the Council of European Municipalities. Rhone-Alpes became one of the most active regional centers of the Fédération. In 1946, J. Barascud created a group in Lyon and in December 1948 Gordiani gave his support to establish the Lyon Federalist Union. Due to the lack of dynamism in the Center of Paris, the Fédération / Rhone-Alps began to establish contacts with local activists of the European Supra-national Federalist Movement (MFE) created in 1959 (from which the Fédération separated in 1957 to join the new Action Européenne Fédéraliste (AEF). The process resulted in the creation of a new European Federalists Union (UEF) at regional level in April 1969, in anticipation of an international federalist reunification, which was accomplished in April 1973

Biographical or historical data

In December 1948 Albert-Marie Gordiani participated in the foundation of the Union of Federalists Lyon (ULF) affiliated to the Fédération, and later was head of its steering committee. The group then took the name of the Union européenne des fédéralistes Rhône-Alpes. He later assumed various positions in committees devoted to defending local and regional freedoms, in the regional branch of the Council of European Municipalities, in the Inter-regional Committee Rhone-Alpes / Piedmont and in the Centre régional des échanges internationaux Rhône-Alpes (CREI) created in 1955 to provide young workers with direct knowledge of the working conditions of their neighbours, in line with the spirit of Europe. The UEF Rhône-Alpes established contacts within the European Federalist Movement and helped to create the new Union of European Federalists (UEF)

Cataloging source

IT-FiEUI

Language note

Fonds in French, Italian, and German. Inventory in French

Location of other archival material

Documentation annexed to the fonds includes an important collection of reviews: Politique, Fédération: revue de l'ordre vivant (published by the Centre d'etudes institutionnelles, Paris), XX siècle fédéraliste, Pouvoir Européen, Nouvelles de l'Europe, Bulletin fédéraliste, other periodicals' issues, studies and reports of the Fédération (not originating from Albert-Marie Gordiani's fonds, but added as a complement to the collection), documents related to the Council of European Municipalities and Regions.