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Remy Roure (October 30, 1885 - November 8, 1966) was a French journalist and a
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in WW2. He worked for several newspapers, like
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,
Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
and
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. Sometimes he wrote under the pseudonym of Pierre Fervacque.


Life

Remy Roure fought in
World War One World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, and was taken prisoner and escaped several times. During his captivity at the fort of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, he met two other prisoners in 1917:
Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
and
Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, p=tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj;  – 12 June 1937) nicknamed the Red Napoleon by foreign newspapers, was a Sovie ...
, future Soviet marshal executed in the
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in 1937. During World War II, he joined the Resistance very early on. With General Cochet and
François de Menthon Count François de Menthon (8 January 1900 – 2 June 1984) was a French politician and professor of law. Early and private life Menthon was born in Montmirey-la-Ville in Jura. He was a son of an old noble family from Menthon-Saint-Bernard. He ...
he founded the ''Liberté'' movement, of which he became a member of the management committee. Member of ''Combat'' resistance movement, he is in favor of a reapprochement between this movement and General de Gaulle. Roure was also a member of an Allied pilot recovery network, ''Bordeaux-Loupiac'', while continuing to write in ''Le Temps'', an activity which served as his cover. On October 11, 1943, while he was transporting American pilots to Rennes, he was arrested by the Gestapo, following a denunciation. He tried to escape but was seriously wounded by gunshot during his attempt while his ally Jean-Claude Camors, was shot dead. Almost dying - he severed his
femoral artery The femoral artery is a large artery in the thigh and the main arterial supply to the thigh and leg. The femoral artery gives off the deep femoral artery or profunda femoris artery and descends along the anteromedial part of the thigh in the fem ...
- Roure received treatment and survived. Four days later he was interned in
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, where he was beaten and tortured. On April 27, 1944, he was deported to Germany, to
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at first, and then to
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where he arrived on May 14, 1944. Eventually he was released by allied forces on April 11, 1945. His wife, Helene Roure, died in the Ravensbrück camp, one month before the end of the war, on March 31, 1945. He was a delegate to the
Provisional Consultative Assembly The Provisional Consultative Assembly (french: Assemblée consultative provisoire) was a governmental organ of Free France that operated under the aegis of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) and that represented the resist ...
, an organization formed by the various French resistance groups, from July 24 to August 3, 1945. At the end of the war, Roure gained the "
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”. After the liberation, he was part of the team of former members of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) who refused the transformation of the PDP into a
Popular Republican Movement The Popular Republican Movement (french: Mouvement Républicain Populaire, MRP) was a Christian-democratic political party in France during the Fourth Republic. Its base was the Catholic vote and its leaders included Georges Bidault, Robert Sc ...
(the PRM), choosing to form a new Democratic Party (PD), which joined the coalition
Rally of Republican Lefts The Rally of Republican Lefts (french: Rassemblement des gauches républicaines, RGR) was an electoral alliance during the French Fourth Republic composed of the Radical Party, the Independent Radicals, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the ...
. The PD merged in 1946, after a few months of existence, with the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR).


Books

''• Les Demi-Vivants'' (under the name of Pierre Fervacque), Fasquelle, Paris 1928 ''• The leader of the Red Army Michaël Toukhatchevski'' (under the name of Pierre Fervacque), Fasquelle, Paris 1928 ''• The proud life of Trotsky'' , (under the name of Pierre Fervacque), Fasquelle, Paris 1929 ''• L'Alsace minée or De Autonomisme alsacien'' , (under the name of Pierre Fervacque), Fasquelle, Paris 1929 ''• L'Alsace et le Vatican'' (under the name of Pierre Fervacque ), Fasquelle, Paris 1930 ''• Anaïs, petite vivaroise'' , (under the name of Pierre Fervacque), Ramlot & Cie, Paris 1930 ''• Le Secret d'Azeff'' , (with Pierre Tugal), editions of the "Nouvelle Revue critique", Paris 1930. ''• Free Pages.'' ''The 4th Republic: birth and abortion of a regime (1945-1946)'' , Le Monde (Impr. Du "Monde"), Paris 1948


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