title: Christian Chabanis
text: # Christian Chabanis
  
  Christian Chabanis (9 August 1936 – 25 April 1989) was a French writer, philosopher and journalist.
  
  ## Biography
  
  A journalist, essayist and novelist, he was also the author of numerous books on fundamental reflections and surveys on the place of faith and the Catholic Church in the modern world and also on death and childhood. He was awarded the Grand prix catholique de littérature in 1985. He created the series "Verse et controverse" at éditions Beauchesne.
  
  He rests in the cemetery of Théoule-sur-Mer.
  
  