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List Of Companions Of The Liberation
This is a List of the Companions of the Liberation, which consist of people, communities and military units that have been awarded the Ordre de la Libération. 1038 people, 5 cities, and 18 military units have been awarded ''Compagnon de la Libération, Compagnons de la Libération''. Amongst the 1038 Compagnons, 271 have been awarded posthumously, 60 were not French at the time they were awarded and six are women. The last surviving member of the order, Hubert Germain, died on the 12th of October 2021. People A *André Aalberg *Michel Abalan *Valentin Abeille *José Aboulker *Robert Abraham * *Alain Agenet *Edouard Ahnne *Raymond Appert *Marcel Albert *Berty Albrecht *Blaise Alexandre *Roland Alibert de Falconnet *Émile Allegret *Roger Alloues *Henri Amiel *Dimitri Amilakvari *René Amiot *Hubert Amyot D'Inville *Louis Andlauer *Gustave André *Roger André *Jacques Andrieux *Pierre Anglade *Bernard Anquetil *Roméo Antoniotti *Paul Appert *Pierre Arainty *Paul Aribaud *Louis A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Baumel
Jacques Baumel (6 March 1918 Р17 February 2006) was a French politician. He was born on 6 March 1918 in Marseille and died on 17 February 2006 in Rueil-Malmaison. He was a French resistance fighter (under the aliases "Saint-Just", "Berneix" or "Rossini"), deputy in the National Assembly, a senator, an important leader of the Gaullist movement, and secretary of state and mayor of Rueil-Malmaison. Resistance fighter After medical studies in France, Baumel took part in the French Resistance and directed the Combat resistance group in arseille. In 1943, he was secretary general of the Mouvements Unis de la R̩sistance (United movements of the Resistance) (MUR). In 1945, helped to found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance">Union d̩mocratique et socialiste de la R̩sistance (UDSR). He was amember of the Provisional Consultative Assembly. In 1945, he was elected deputy of the National Assembly of Moselle (department), Moselle to the First National Constituent As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Cassin
Ren̩ Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 Р20 February 1976) was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Bayonne, Cassin served as a soldier in the First World War during which he was seriously wounded. On 24 June 1940, during the Second World War, Cassin heeded General Charles de Gaulle's radio appeal and joined him in London. Cassin used his legal expertise to help de Gaulle's Free French. Between 1944 and 1959, Cassin was a member of the Council of State. Seconded to the UN Commission on Human Rights after the war, he was a major contributor to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For that work, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. The same year, he was awarded one of the UN General Assembly's Human Rights Prizes. Early life Cassin was born in Bayonne on 5 October 1887, to a Sephardi Jewish family. He grew up in Nice, where he attended the , and graduated with a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Brunet De Sairigné
Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné (9 February 1913 – 1 March 1948) was a French Army officer of the French Foreign Legion. He was born in Paris, and was killed in the line of duty close to Lagnia Bien Hoa ( Viêt Nam). Education He went to the Lycée Pasteur and the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris before joining the famous École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1933. World War II During World War II, he participated with the Free French Forces in: *1941 : the East African Campaign (in Eritrea and Ethiopia) and the Syria-Lebanon Campaign) *1942 : the Battle of Bir Hakeim, then the Tunisia Campaign *1943 : the Allied invasion of Sicily *1944 : the Operation Dragoon. *1944 : the campaign of Alsace. He finished the war with the rank of lieutenant colonel, commandant in chief of the ''First French Free Division'' (in French: ''"Première division française libre"'', or ''"1ère DFL"''). His personal notes dealing with his campaigns during World War II (exactly from 28 Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Brossolette
Pierre Brossolette (25 June 1903 – 22 March 1944) was a French journalist, left-wing politician and major hero of the French Resistance in World War II. He ran an intelligence hub of Parisian resistance at the Rue de la Pompe, before serving as a liaison officer in London, where he also was a radio anchor for the BBC. Arrested in Brittany as he was trying to reach the UK on a mission back from France alongside Émile Bollaert, Brossolette was taken into custody by the ''Sicherheitsdienst''. He tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a window at their headquarters on 84 Avenue Foch in Paris as he feared he would reveal the lengths of French Resistance networks under torture. He died of his wounds at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital later that day. In 2015, his ashes were transferred to the Panthéon with national honours at the request of President François Hollande, alongside politician Jean Zay and fellow Resistance members Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury
Maurice Jean Marie Bourgès-Maunoury (; 19 August 1914 – 10 February 1993) was a French Radical politician who served as the Prime Minister in the Fourth Republic during 1957. Bourgès-Maunoury was born in Luisant, Eure-et-Loir. He is famous, especially, for fulfilling a prominent ministerial role in the government during the Suez Crisis. Prime minister He became Prime Minister in June 1957. While he was Prime Minister, the French Government achieved Parliamentary ratification of the Treaty of Rome. He was succeeded as Prime Minister in November 1957 by Félix Gaillard. Controversy As minister of Interior, he nominated the controversial Maurice Papon at the head of the Prefecture of Police in 1958, functions which he kept during the 1961 Paris massacre. Death He died in Paris in 1993. Bourgès-Maunoury's Ministry, 13 June – 6 November 1957 *Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury – President of the Council *Christian Pineau – Minister of Foreign Affairs * André Morice â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Bourdet
Claude Bourdet (28 October 1909 – 20 March 1996) was a writer, journalist, polemist, and militant French politician. Peronal life Bourdet was a son of the dramatic author Édouard Bourdet and the poet Catherine Pozzi, was born and died in Paris, France. In 1935 he married Ida Adamoff. Education He left the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich with an engineering diploma in technical physics in 1933. After his military service in the Artillerie de Montagne, he was put in charge of a mission for the Economy Ministry, during the government of the Front populaire. Life He was very active in French Resistance movements. He participated in the foundation of the resistance newspaper ''Combat'' along with Henri Frenay, of which he was a member of the management committee, until the departure of Frenay to London and later Algeria in 1943, when he was made its representative. From 1942 he took part in the creation and development of the newspaper with the task of dividing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Bouquillard
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * Henri I, Duke of Nemours (1572–1632), the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este * Henri II, Duke of Nemours (1625–1659), the seventh Duc de Nemours * Henri, Count of Harcourt (1601–1666), French nobleman * Henri, Dauphin of Viennois (1296–1349), bishop of Metz * Henri de Gondi (other) * Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555–1623), member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne * Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (1857–1923), French mountain climber * Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1955), the head of state of Luxembourg * Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French Huguenot soldier and diplomat, one of the principal commanders of Batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Bonnet (French Officer)
Georges-Étienne Bonnet (22/23 July 1889 – 18 June 1973) was a French politician who served as foreign minister in 1938 and 1939 and was a leading figure in the Radical Party. Early life Bonnet was born in Bassillac, Dordogne, the son of a lawyer.Adamthwaite, Anthony ''France and the Coming of the Second World War 1936–1939'', London: Frank Cass, 1977 page 98. He studied law and political science at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques and Sorbonne. Early career He went to work as an ''auditeur'' at the ''Conseil d'état''. In 1911, he launched a political career after marrying Odette Pelletan, the granddaughter of Eugene Pelletan. Bonnet's wife, often known as Madame Soutien-Georges, ran a salon, and had great ambitions for her husband; one contemporary reported that Madame Bonnet was "so wildly ambitious for her husband that when a new ministry was being formed he was afraid to go home at night unless he had captured a post for himself."Adamthwaite, Anthony ''Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Bollier
André Bollier (May 30, 1920 – June 17, 1944) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Bollier was born in Paris and enrolled in the École Polytechnique in 1938. He was called up for military service after his first year of studies, in September 1939, at the start of the Phoney War. He trained in Fontainebleau and was sent to Alsace in February 1940 assigned to the 68th Artillery Regiment of the 70th Infantry Division. He saw combat there and was severely wounded and captured in an engagement with German troops on June 21, 1940. Due to his injuries he was released by the Germans in November 1940 and returned to study at the Polytechnique. In 1941, Bollier became active in the resistance participating in the distribution of the underground newspaper '' Les Petites Ailes'' (''Small Wings''). Following his graduation from the Polytechnique he made contact with the resistance organization Combat. He wrote in the group's newspaper, also named ''Combat'', under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain De Boissieu
Alain de Boissieu Déan de Luigné (; 5 July 1915 – 5 April 2006) was a French general who served in the Free French Forces during World War II, later becoming Army chief of staff (1971–1975). He was the son-in-law of General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French and postwar President of France. Life Son of a French noble family with title coming from Forez and Lyon (de Boissieu), Alain de Boissieu was a pupil at École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr (French military academy) in 1936 and Saumur (French cavalry school) in 1938. He was a cavalry officer during World War II and, with horses and sabre, made a successful charge (one of the last in cavalry history) against German troops on 11 June 1940. A prisoner of the Germans, he managed to escape to the Soviet Union in March 1941. However Joseph Stalin was, at this time, an ally of Hitler. He was then sent for a while to a Soviet internment camp. Finally, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in mid-1941, he joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Bingen
Jacques Bingen (16 March 1908 – 12 May 1944) was a high-ranking member of the French Resistance during World War II who, when captured by the Gestapo, chose to commit suicide rather than risk divulging what he knew under torture. Early life Bingen was born in Paris to a Jewish family with Italian roots. He was the brother-in-law of André Citroën. After graduating from the Lycée Janson de Sailly in 1924, he entered the École des mines de Paris in 1926 and studied to become an engineer. In 1930–1931, he served in the artillery branch of the French Army. From 1935, he was director of the French shipping company Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement. World War II He was drafted in 1939 for World War II. During the Battle of France, he was wounded on 12 June 1940 at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. After France surrendered, he made his way to British-held Gibraltar, and from there to England, arriving in July. He joined the Free French under General Charles de Gaulle, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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