“A golden person”
Dominique Bernard, was 57 years old and was an associate professor of modern literature. Father of three daughters, he was married to a teacher. He was killed while interposing on Friday morning against the attacker who was heading towards the high school, according to Emmanuel Macron. He “undoubtedly saved many lives himself”, underlined the President of the Republic.
“She was a golden person,” says Camille, 17, hooded sweatshirt and messy hair, who was his student for a year. “The proof is that he sacrificed himself for us. » “He was always there for us, he was truly an extraordinary person,” says Chloé, 17, a final year student.
“I saw him again yesterday at recess,” said, moved, one of his colleagues, Philippe Lourdel, mathematics teacher at this high school. He describes “an enthusiast”, “a curious person”, who “liked to discuss literature, of course, but also science”.
A dog, chickens
Dominique Bernard has spent his entire career in the North, reports Le Figaro, first by teaching a few years in preparatory class in Lille, before returning, more than fifteen years ago, to Arras, the town where he spent his childhood. He was also the co-founder, with Paule Orsoni, professor of philosophy, of the popular university of Arras, little sister to that imagined by Michel Onfray in Caen. “He was optimistic, he always had a laugh and the necessary distance from things.”
“Dominique was an associate professor, but taught at the college by choice. He deeply loved his teaching, the students, literature, culture, everything that can make a man an honest man. He was a fervent defender of secularism, like Samuel Paty. explains his former colleague to Facteur. This year, he was in charge of several fifth grade classes. “He was a little strict but nice,” said one of his students.
Dominique Bernard had a dog, says Marianne for her part. He walked him through the streets of Berneville (Pas-de-Calais). He also fed chickens with his wife at the bottom of a garden. He wrote, he read, he loved cinema. He was correcting copies.
Tribute day
Many tributes will be paid to him this Monday, first in middle and high schools, but also in many communities, where gatherings are planned.
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