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    The Order has a single rank, the title of Compagnon de la Libération ("Companion of the Liberation"). General de Gaulle, founder of the Order, was the only...
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    Paul Legentilhomme (category École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni)
    French. Legentilhomme was a recipient of the "Order of the Liberation" (Compagnon de la Libération). Legentilhomme was born on March 26, 1884, in Valognes...
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    cities, and 18 military units have been awarded Compagnons de la Libération. Amongst the 1038 Compagnons, 271 have been awarded posthumously, 60 were not...
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  • Companion of Liberation (French: Compagnon de la Libération) is a member of the Order of the Liberation, created on November 16, 1940, by General de Gaulle...
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    d'Estienne d'Orves (1901–1941), Compagnon de la Libération Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902–1947), Compagnon de la Libération and marshal of France (Marshall...
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    (8e Régiment de Dragons) [fr]. The 1st Marching Moroccan Spahi Regiment 1er RMSM was awarded the distinction of Compagnon de la Libération by decree of...
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  • Robert Détroyat (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Détroyat (8 January 1911 – June 1941) was a French naval officer and Compagnon de la Libération. He served in the French Navy before joining the Free French Forces...
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    was a French Navy officer of the Free French Naval Forces, a Compagnon de la Libération, became the Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean, then Maritime...
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  • Michel Stahl (category Companions of the Liberation)
    Reformed Church. He was a compagnon de la Libération. He joined the Free France in June 1940. He was made compagnon de la Libération by a decree of 7 August...
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  • Bernard Anquetil (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Bernard Anquetil (1916–1941) was a French Resistance and a Compagnon de la Libération. Bernard Anquetil embarked on the Ouessant submarine in June 1940...
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    Cross of the Légion d'Honneur Compagnon de la Libération Médaille Militaire Croix de Guerre 39–45 with 3 palms Croix de Guerre des Théâtres d'Opérations...
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    de Roland La Poype, pilote du Normandie-Niémen et Compagnon de la Libération". Le Point. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2018. "« Roland de La...
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    Gabriel Bablon (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    September 1905 - 27 March 1956) was a French army officer and Compagnon de la Libération. A Legion Officer seconded from the ranks, who had already accumulated...
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    Gaston Palewski (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
    Croix of the Légion d'Honneur, The title and cross of a Compagnon de la Libération, The Croix de Guerre (twice), The Médaille Coloniale, with a bar The...
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    Laure Diebold (category Companions of the Liberation)
    is one of only six female resistants to be awarded the title Compagnon de la Libération. Diebold was born Laurentine Mutschler in Erstein (Alsace-Lorraine...
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  • Edgard Tupët-Thomé (category People from Bourg-la-Reine)
    "Élévation à la dignité de grand croix de la Légion d'honneur d'Edgard Tüpet-Thomé , Compagnon de la Libération". L'Ordre de la Libération (in French)...
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    Grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur Compagnon de la Libération Chodron de Courcel family Bernadette Chirac "Geoffroy Chodron de Courcel". Chancellerie de l'Ordre...
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  • the High Commissioner of Comoros from 1962 to 1963. Décès d’Yves de Daruvar, dernier compagnon de la Libération de la 2ème DB (in French) v t e v t e...
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    Alexandre Parodi (category Companions of the Liberation)
    awarded the Grand Croix de la Légion d'Honneur, the Grand Croix de l'Ordre National du Mérite and made a Compagnon de la Libération. Rue Alexandre Parodi...
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    Pierre Brossolette (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    awarded Compagnon de la Libération. Brossolette created the civilian arm of the BCRAM intelligence service, which became the Bureau Central de Renseignements...
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    rejoined de Gaulle after the liberation of Paris. In November 1944, d'Astier was made a Compagnon de la Libération and became France's ambassador in Rio de Janeiro...
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    participated in the Algiers putsch. Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné - Colonel dead on duty in 1948, Compagnon de la Libération Pierre Segrétain Sisowath Monivong, 1908-9...
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    before General Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill after the 2e RCP was awarded the Compagnon de la Libération designation (Companion...
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    village of Vassieux as well as Grenoble were made Compagnon de la Libération by General Charles de Gaulle, to underline their actions against the Nazis...
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    Courmes family (category Companions of the Liberation)
    "Biographie - Ordre National de la Libération". Jean-Christophe Notin, 1061 compagnons : Histoire des Compagnons de la Libération, editing Perrin, 2000 ( ISBN 2-262-01606-2)...
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  • Paulin Colonna d'Istria (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    French Gendarmerie officer, awarded the Compagnon de la Libération after playing a major part in the liberation of Corsica. Colonna d'Istria was born on...
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    as well as French ones. On October 11, de Gaulle accorded the groupe the title of Compagnon de la Libération. By the time GC 3 relocated to Toula on...
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  • Jacques Hébert (French politician) (category Companions of the Liberation)
    "Décès de Jacques Hébert, ancien maire de Cherbourg et compagnon de la Libération". Tendance Ouest (in French). Retrieved 18 February 2018. "Décès de Jacques...
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  • Charpentier 1966 - Arnauld Wapler 1970 - Augustin Jordan, Compagnon de la Libération 1973 - Louis Dauge 1977 - Serge Boidevaix 1980 - Jacques Dupuy 1982...
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    Knight of the Légion d'honneur Compagnon de la Libération Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with 7 palms avec sept palmes Croix de guerre Belge 1939-1945 Bronze...
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