Paul Bonnenfant is a former research director at the CNRS, associate researcher at IREMAM and CEFREPA. Also a photographer and Pyrenean climber, he achieved many firsts in the Pyrenees, some of which with Paul Mortier, Jean and Pierre Ravier and other local climbers. Preparing a degree in sociology at the Faculty of Letters in Bordeaux at the end of the 1950s, he studied during the Algerian War of Independence, which was, at that time, "the" subject that everyone was talking about in universiti ...