Rémy Roure (; October 30, 1885 - November 8, 1966) was a French journalist and a

resistance fighter A resistance movement is an organized group of people that tries to resist or try to overthrow a government or an occupying power, causing disruption and unrest in civil order and stability. Such a movement may seek to achieve its goals through ei ...

in WW2. He was deported to

Buchenwald concentration camp Buchenwald (; 'beech forest') was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Nazi Germany, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich (pre-1938 ...

in 1944. He worked for several newspapers, like

Le Monde (; ) is a mass media in France, French daily afternoon list of newspapers in France, newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average print circulation, circulation of 480,000 copies per issue in 2022, including ...

Le Figaro () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...

and the Swiss

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. Sometimes he wrote under the pseudonym of Pierre Fervacque. Ingolstadt Fort Prinz Karl

Life

Remy Roure fought in

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, 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 (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...

and

Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, p=tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj; – 12 June 1937), nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominen ...

, 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. H ...

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

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- Roure received treatment and survived. Four days later he was interned in Fresnes Prison, 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

Buchenwald Buchenwald (; 'beech forest') was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich (Old Reich) territori ...

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 (, ) was a governmental organ of Free France that operated under the aegis of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) and that represented the resistance movements, political parties, and ter ...

, 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 (, 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 Schuman, Paul Coste-Floret, Pierre-Henr ...

(the PRM), choosing to form a new Democratic Party (PD), which joined the coalition

Rally of Republican Lefts The Rally of Republican Lefts (, RGR) was an electoral alliance during the French Fourth Republic which contested elections from June 1946 to the 1956 French legislative election. It was composed of the Radical Party, the Independent Radicals, ...

. 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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roure, Remy 1885 births 1966 deaths People from Ardèche Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance politicians Members of the Provisional Consultative Assembly French journalists Le Monde writers French military personnel of World War I French Resistance members Buchenwald concentration camp survivors Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour Companions of the Liberation Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)