René Tavernier

A friend of Vladimir Jankélévitch, he was held at Drancy internment camp. After escaping, he fled to the United States. Joining writers and journalists during the war led him to Lyon in the neighborhood where he directed Montchat Confluences - A journal on "Literature and Arts" - founded by Jacques Aubenque between July 1941 and 1943. It is in this review, which had as the "original purpose" to "bring together writers and ideas from diverse backgrounds in the service of humanism" that he published the poems of Pierre Emmanuel, Max Jacob, Henri Michaux, Paul Éluard and Louis Aragon, one of whose poems was also the cause of the suspension of the magazine for a few months. Firmly committed to the Resistance, René Tavernier organized clandestine meetings at his home until the end of 1943 with Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon. His son was the film director Bertrand Tavernier.

The authorities additionally record the heading René Léon Gérard Marie Tavernier. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Léon Tavernier and Hélène Tavernier. He married Geneviève Tavernier. 3 children are recorded: Bertrand Tavernier, Sophie Crèvecoeur and Laurence Simon-Lorière.

René Tavernier is recorded with the occupation literary critic. Recorded as poet, philosopher and literary critic.