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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 '' 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 Armand * Michel Arnaud * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Baumel
Jacques Baumel (6 March 1918 – 17 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 Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance (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 Assembly, was elected in Creuse to the Second Assembly but defeated in the elections to the National Assembly of 1946. He chaired the parliamentary group of the UDSR. He participated in the development of Rasse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Cassin
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 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 ... [...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 Februar ... [...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 Gaul ... [...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 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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