Robert Aron was born in Le Vesinet on 25 May 1898 to an upper-class Jewish family from eastern France.
13 Facts About Robert Aron
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Robert Aron attended the Lycee Condorcet and served in the French Army during World War I Robert Aron was wounded in action in 1918.
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In 1922, while at university studying for a degree in Languages and Classics, Aron was the President of the Cercle International d'Etudiants.
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Robert Aron worked as a film critic for the magazine La Revue du Cinema, and wrote about politics in the foreign service for the Revue des Deux Mondes.
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Robert Aron's experience left him questioning the revolutionary attributes of art.
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Closely collaborating with Dandieu until his death in 1933, Robert Aron took a very active part in all of the activities of Ordre Nouveau until its end in 1938.
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Robert Aron took up editorial duties again after the Liberation of France, most notably at the publishing houses Librairie Academique Perrin and later, Editions Fayard.
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Robert Aron therefore argued that there were "two Vichy's", Petain's and Laval's.
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Robert Aron claimed that the Vichy government played a "double game" between the Allies and the Axis by holding secret talks with the Allies while officially collaborating.
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Robert Aron attacked the "crimes" committed by the Resistance and he claimed that they had summarily executed "thirty to forty thousand people".
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Charles de Gaulle wrote to Robert Aron disputing this figure, citing 10,000 as the more accurate estimate.
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An agnostic during the 1930s, Robert Aron returned to his Jewish faith after 1945 and participated in formal Jewish-Christian dialogue.
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Robert Aron wrote books about Jesus's identity as a Jew, including Jesus of Nazareth: The Hidden Years, and The Jewish Jesus.