Abstract FR:

La carriere litteraire de francois mauriac s'est prolonge, a partir du prix nobel obtenu en 1952, par une importante oeuvre journalistique rassemblee dans le bloc-notes qui comprend cinq volumes. Bien que le romanicer se soit interesse a tous les problemes de son temps, les repercussions du processus de decolonisation sur les institution et sur la societe francaise y occupent une place essentielle. La these se propose d'en rechercher la dimension historique et d'apprecier la vision de francois mauriac sur des evenements qui ont marque profondement et durablement la vie des francais. Title: "francois mauriac, the novelist as a witness to french decolonisation" contents of the thesis after the nobel prize he got in 1952, francois mauriac's literary career has been followed by important journalistic works collected in the "bloc-notes" which comprises five volumes. Though the novelist has taken interest in all the problems of the time, the effects of the process of decolonisation on institutions and on french society hold on an important ( a preponderant) place in this work. The thesis intends to search for its historic dimension and to estimate francois mauriac's vision on events which have affected french people's life deeply and for long.