Michel Pontremoli (Paris, 20 February 1908 - Lyon, 1944) was a French civil servant and partisan, an active intellectual and close friend of Francis Ponge, Albert Camus, Jean Hyppolite and Simone de Beauvoir.
[1] Michel Pontremoli was born in Paris in February 1908 into an upper middle class Jewish family.
He corresponded with leading French intellectuals of the time such as Francis Ponge, a close friend, Albert Camus,[3] Jean Hyppolite e Simone de Beauvoir.
[4] When Nazi Germany occupied France in 1940, Pontremoli and his family were persecuted due to their Jewish heritage as well as his communist affiliations.
[6] After his death, a commemorative plaque was dedicated to him in the Palais-Royal, seat of the Council of State.