Léon Savary

Léon Savary (Fleurier, 1895 - Boudry, 1968) was a Swiss French-speaking writer and journalist [1] from Payerne, Vaud.

Biography

Savary was the son of a German russified aristocratic mother from the Baltic region (Von Paucker) and a father from Vaud. After studying at the University of Fribourg, he worked for many years for the Geneva newspaper la tribune de Genève, in Geneva, and correspondent in Bern (1935-1946) and Paris (1946-1956). He was Historian of the city of his own choice Fribourg.[2] He wrote about twenty books, most of them are not published anymore.

He had a great knowledge of the Swiss political system and habits. In Letters with Suzanne (French: Lettres à Suzanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1949), he denounced "the occult influence of hitlerism on Swiss people during the second world war, which were not conscious of being under". About Swiss Politic in general, in the same book, covering the Federal Palace, he said, with his alert and sharp pen: "The Swiss do not desire great men, and in politics, they are afraid to have them. What they like is honesty and average aptitude to manage public affairs like a shop. They mistrust superiority and, let us frankly admit, they are horrified at genius. No geniuses, no saints, even talent is suspect. It is enough to say that a politician who showed signs of surpassing the low water mark would be promptly subject to public discredit"

After coming back from Paris in 1956, he spent the end of his life in the cities of Vevey and Bulle.

Works

Awards

Léon Savary won the Schiller Prize in 1960.

Bibliography

References

  1. Chevallaz, Georges André (2001). The challenge of neutrality: diplomacy and the defense of Switzerland. Lexington Books.
  2. Biography Léon Savary in Larousse Dictionary Retrieved March 4, 2014

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