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    Henri Frenay Sandoval (11 November 1905 – 8 August 1988) was a French military officer and French Resistance member, who served as minister of prisoners...
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    Mercier, he went to Marseille, where he met other résistants, including Henri Frenay and Antoine Sachs. Moulin travelled to London in September 1941 after...
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    mentioned by virtually all accounts by Parisians at the time. The résistant Henri Frenay wrote about seeing the tricolour flag disappear from Paris with the swastika...
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  • Mouvement de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Movement) of Henri Frenay and Berty Albrecht. The lieutenant participated in the MLN in the South...
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  • chapter of the Combat resistance organisation, he won the confidence of Henri Frenay, Maurice Chevance [fr] and Berty Albrecht. In Paris, he gained the appreciation...
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  • member of Combat Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (1909–1989) Henri Frager (1897–1944) Henri Frenay (1905–1988), founder of Combat, minister in the first post-liberation...
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    obtained funding for his own network. In March, François Mitterrand met Henri Frenay, who encouraged the resistance in France to support François Mitterrand...
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    fleeing fascism) to her house in Sainte-Maxime, where she met Captain Henri Frenay, who was to survive the war and become one of the most famous living...
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    1895 Fortuné Charles de Chavannes (s.a.) 27 Apr 1895 - 22 Jan 1899 Louis Henri Albert Dolisie (b. 1856 - d. 1899) 1 May 1899 - 11 Jul 1902 Jean-Baptiste...
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    were members of Combat, a French resistance group formed in 1942 by Henri Frenay. Frenay, Sartre, and Camus were all involved in publishing underground newspapers...
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    father, Henri de Gaulle, was a professor of history and literature at a Jesuit college and eventually founded his own school.: 42–47  Henri de Gaulle...
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    through the uniting of de Gaulle's (Comité national français, or CNF) and Henri Giraud's organisations. Among its most immediate concerns were to ensure...
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    The urn is embellished with a metal sculpture representing a flame. Henri Frenay was charged in 1945 with organizing the ceremony and selecting those...
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  • Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy [fr] Pierre Villon Museums...
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    Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy [fr] Pierre Villon Museums...
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    Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy [fr] Pierre Villon Museums...
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  • her work in the French Resistance alongside her partner Andrée Jacob, Henri Frenay and Claude Bourdet. Éveline Geneviève Anna Garnier was born on 6 May...
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    Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy [fr] Pierre Villon Museums...
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    Commander-in-Chief. Huntziger accepted in principle (although according to Henri Massis he was merely amused at the prospect of forming a Breton redoubt...
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    in the occupied north. Combat was created in August 1940 in Lyon by Henri Frenay, supported by Berty Albrecht. Through a system of regional heads, he...
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    members in hiding of the Resistance Combat network, including its leader, Henri Frenay. Her family aided the French Resistance and helped lodge members of the...
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    Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy [fr] Pierre Villon Museums...
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    withdraw. It was also decided that Huet's superior officer in the FFI, Henri Zeller who was present at the meeting, would escape the Vercors with SOE...
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    life [...]. They totalled about 48,000." The Maquis de l'Ain, captained by Henri Petit (alias Romans), organized a network of camps in the dense forests...
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    Forces of the Interior (the armed force of the French Resistance), led by Henri Rol-Tanguy, staged an uprising in Paris. The Battle of the Falaise Pocket...
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    Jean Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy [fr] Pierre Villon Museums...
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  • military academy and had fought in the Rif. He made the acquaintance of Henri Frenay at some point during military school where he became a specialist of...
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    assigned to the general headquarters in London. According to the tally of Henri Écochard, an ex-Free French Forces serviceman, there were at least 54,500...
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    on Paris would risk destroying it, but when the French Resistance under Henri Rol-Tanguy staged an uprising in the city from 19 August, Charles de Gaulle...
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    Barre Pierre Fourrier Yvan Franoul Philippe Fratacci Henri Frenay Geoffroy Frotier de Bagneux Henri Fruchaud Bernard Fuchs Roger Furst Pierre Gabard Adolphe...
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