Passionate about words, altruistic, at the service of the most deprived… How can we summarize, in just a few lines, who Jean-Pierre Mauduy was? A good man, obviously, one could write to simplify.
But that would be too reductive. So to begin, know that Jean-Pierre was a great defender of freedoms, rights and public service.
He spent a large part of his life defending them. The committed activist that he was, had been involved in May 68 and if he had since acquired wisdom, he had kept the verve of the young leading man.
Moreover, it did not take long for him to participate in the yellow vest movement in 2018, even going to almost 80 years old – he had celebrated them on April 10 – to brave the cold in the middle of the night at the toll of La Barque to set up barricades, share a sandwich with his friends and fight, peacefully of course, because violence was not his thing, against government measures that he found unfair. He never spared his pain.
At the bedside of others
Moreover, to help others, he had decided to put his services to the benefit of the Restos du Coeur in Aix first, then in Fuveau, becoming frightened, year after year, by the utter destitution in which he found poor people who came to seek comfort in the spirit desired by Coluche.
