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Pierre Brossolette, the Glossary

Pierre Brossolette (25 June 1903 – 22 March 1944) was a French journalist, politician and major hero of the French Resistance in World War II.^[1]

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Agnès Humbert

Agnès Humbert (12 October 1894 – 19 September 1963) was an art historian, ethnographer and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Pierre Brossolette and Agnès Humbert are French Resistance members.

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Agrégation

In France, the is the most competitive and prestigious examination for civil service in the French public education system.

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Algerian War

The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence)الثورة الجزائرية al-Thawra al-Jaza'iriyah; Guerre d'Algérie (and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November) was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France.

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André Dewavrin

André Dewavrin DSO, MC (9 June 1911 – 20 December 1998) (colonel Passy) was a French officer who served with Free French Forces intelligence services during World War II. Pierre Brossolette and André Dewavrin are Companions of the Liberation, French Resistance members and military personnel from Paris.

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André Malraux

Georges André Malraux (3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Pierre Brossolette and André Malraux are Companions of the Liberation, French Army personnel of World War II, French Resistance members, Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Aristide Briand

Aristide Pierre Henri Briand (28 March 18627 March 1932) was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. Pierre Brossolette and Aristide Briand are French Freemasons.

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Armistice

An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.

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Avenue Foch

Avenue Foch is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, named after World War I Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1929.

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École normale supérieure (Paris)

The – PSL (also known as ENS,, Ulm or ENS Paris) is a grande école in Paris, France.

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École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr

The École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is a French military academy, and is often referred to as Saint-Cyr.

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Émile Bollaert

Émile Bollaert (13 November 1890 – 18 May 1978) was French High Commissioner of Indochina from 5 March 1947 to 19 October 1948.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Berty Albrecht

Berty Albrecht (15 February 1893 – 31 May 1943) was a French feminist and French Resistance martyr of the Second World War. Pierre Brossolette and Berty Albrecht are Companions of the Liberation, French Resistance members, French torture victims, Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Bonapartism

Bonapartism (Bonapartisme) is the political ideology supervening from Napoleon Bonaparte and his followers and successors.

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Brigitte Friang

Brigitte Friang (23 January 1924 – 6 March 2011) was a French journalist, writer and French Resistance member. Pierre Brossolette and Brigitte Friang are French Resistance members, French torture victims, Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Brumaire

Brumaire was the second month in the French Republican calendar.

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Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action

The Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action (Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations), abbreviated BCRA, was the World War II-era forerunner of the SDECE and DGSE, the French intelligence services.

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Cacique

A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (feminine form: cacica), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European contact with those places.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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Captain (armed forces)

The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.

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Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France. Pierre Brossolette and Charles de Gaulle are French Army officers and Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France).

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Charles Vallin

Charles Vallin (1903–1948) was a French politician. Pierre Brossolette and Charles Vallin are French Resistance members.

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Christian Pineau

Christian Pineau (14 October 1904, in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France – 5 April 1995, in Paris) was a noted French Resistance fighter, who later served an important term as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 through 1958. Pierre Brossolette and Christian Pineau are Companions of the Liberation, French Resistance members, French Section of the Workers' International politicians and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Commanding officer

The commanding officer (CO) or commander, or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG) or general officer commanding (GOC), is the officer in command of a military unit.

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Confrérie Notre-Dame

The Confrérie Notre-Dame (CND), later called the CND-Castille, was a French resistance group founded by Colonel Rémy.

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Croix de Guerre

The Croix de Guerre (Cross of War) is a military decoration of France.

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Croix de Guerre 1939–1945

The 1939–1945 (English: War Cross 1939–1945) is a French military decoration, a version of the created on 26 September 1939 to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis forces at any time during World War II.

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Daniel Cordier

Daniel Cordier (10 August 1920 – 20 November 2020) was a French Resistance fighter, historian and art dealer. Pierre Brossolette and Daniel Cordier are French Resistance members.

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Daniel Mayer

Daniel Raphaël Mayer (29 April 1909 – 29 December 1996) was a French politician and a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and president of the Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, Human Rights League) from 1958 to 1975. Pierre Brossolette and Daniel Mayer are French Resistance members, French Section of the Workers' International politicians, human Rights League (France) members, politicians from Paris and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie

Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie (6 January 190012 June 1969) was a French journalist, politician and member of the French Resistance. Pierre Brossolette and Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie are Companions of the Liberation, politicians from Paris, Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.

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Ernst Misselwitz

Ernst Misselwitz (31 August 1909 –?) was an SS-Hauptscharführer who became head of the unit IV E of the RSHA – Reich Security Main Office of the Gestapo (secret state police) in occupied Paris, France, during World War II.

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F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas

Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, (17 June 1902 – 26 February 1964), known as "Tommy", was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in the Second World War. Pierre Brossolette and F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas are Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France).

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Felucca

A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat with a single sail used in the Mediterranean—including around Malta and Tunisia.

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François Hollande

François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017.

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Free France

Free France (France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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French Liberation Army

The French Liberation Army (Armée française de la Libération or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose from the merging of the Armée d'Afrique with the prior Free French Forces (label or FFL) during World War II.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.

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French Section of the Workers' International

The French Section of the Workers' International (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the modern-day Socialist Party.

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The French Social Party (Parti Social Français, PSF) was a French nationalist political party founded in 1936 by François de La Rocque, following the dissolution of his Croix-de-Feu league by the Popular Front government.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.

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Gabriel Péri

Gabriel Péri (Peri) (9 February 1902 — 15 December 1941) was a prominent French communist journalist and politician who was a member of the French Resistance.

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Gaston Defferre

Gaston Defferre (14 September 1910 – 7 May 1986) was a French Socialist politician. Pierre Brossolette and Gaston Defferre are French Resistance members, French Section of the Workers' International politicians and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Gaullism

Gaullism (Gaullisme) is a French political stance based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French Republic.

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Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz

Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (25 October 1920 – 14 February 2002) was a member of the French Resistance in World War II, during which she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Pierre Brossolette and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz are French Resistance members, Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Georges Bidault

Georges-Augustin Bidault (5 October 189927 January 1983) was a French politician. Pierre Brossolette and Georges Bidault are Companions of the Liberation and French Resistance members.

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Germaine Tillion

Germaine Tillion (30 May 1907 – 18 April 2008) was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. Pierre Brossolette and Germaine Tillion are Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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German military administration in occupied France during World War II

The Military Administration in France (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Administration militaire en France) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.

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Gilbert Renault

Gilbert Renault (6 August 1904 – 29 July 1984), known by the nom de guerre Colonel Rémy, was a notable French secret agent active during the Second World War and was known under various pseudonyms such as Raymond, Jean-Luc, Morin, Watteau, Roulier, Beauce and Rémy. Pierre Brossolette and Gilbert Renault are French Resistance members and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Gilberte Brossolette

Gilberte Brossolette (née Bruel; 27 December 1905 – 18 February 2004) was a French journalist and politician. Pierre Brossolette and Gilberte Brossolette are French Resistance members, French Section of the Workers' International politicians, politicians from Paris and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Groupe du musée de l'Homme

The Groupe du musée de l'Homme (French for 'Group of the Museum of Man') was a movement in the French resistance to the German occupation during the Second World War.

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Harlem Désir

Harlem Jean-Philippe Désir (born 25 November 1959) is a French politician. Pierre Brossolette and Harlem Désir are politicians from Paris.

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Henri Frenay

Henri Frenay Sandoval (11 November 1905 – 8 August 1988) was a French military officer and French Resistance member, who served as minister of prisoners, refugees and deportees in Charles de Gaulle's Provisional Government of the French Republic. Pierre Brossolette and Henri Frenay are French Resistance members and French Section of the Workers' International politicians.

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Henri Giraud

Henri Honoré Giraud (18 January 1879 – 11 March 1949) was a French military officer who was a leader of the Free French Forces during the Second World War until he was forced to retire in 1944. Pierre Brossolette and Henri Giraud are politicians from Paris.

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Heroes of the Resistance

Heroes of the Resistance is a set of twenty-three stamps issued from 1957 to 1961 by La Poste, commemorating 27 members of the French Resistance who died during the Occupation of France between 1940 and 1945 (apart from Edmond Debeaumarché, who died in 1959).

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Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves

Henri Louis Honoré, Count d'Estienne d'Orves (5 June 1901 – 29 August 1941) was a French Navy officer and one of the major heroes of the French Resistance, said to be the "first martyr of Free France". Pierre Brossolette and Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves are Companions of the Liberation and French Resistance members.

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Human Rights League (France)

The Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l’homme or LDH) of France is a Human Rights NGO association to observe, defend and promulgate human rights within the French Republic in all spheres of public life.

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International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism

The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism—or Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme (LICRA) in French—was established in 1927 and is opposed to intolerance, xenophobia, and exclusion.

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Jacques Bingen

Jacques Bingen (16 March 1908 – 12 May 1944) was a high-ranking member of the French Resistance during World War II who, when captured by the Gestapo, chose to commit suicide rather than risk divulging what he knew under torture. Pierre Brossolette and Jacques Bingen are Companions of the Liberation, French Army personnel of World War II and French Resistance members.

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Jean Cassou

Jean Cassou (9 July 1897 – 15 January 1986) was a French writer, art critic, poet, member of the French Resistance during World War II and the first Director of the Musée national d'Art moderne in Paris. Pierre Brossolette and Jean Cassou are Companions of the Liberation and French Resistance members.

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Jean Cavaillès

Jean Cavaillès (15 May 1903 – 4 April 1944) was a French philosopher and logician who specialized in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science. Pierre Brossolette and Jean Cavaillès are École Normale Supérieure alumni, French Resistance members, Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) and Recipients of the Resistance Medal.

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Jean Moulin

Jean Pierre Moulin (20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943) was a French civil servant and resistant who succeeded in unifying the main networks of the French Resistance in World War II, a unique act in Europe. Pierre Brossolette and Jean Moulin are Companions of the Liberation, French Resistance members, French torture victims and Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France).

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Jean Zay

Jean Élie Paul Zay (6 August 1904 – 20 June 1944) was a French politician. Pierre Brossolette and Jean Zay are French Freemasons, French Resistance members and human Rights League (France) members.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Pierre Brossolette and Jean-Paul Sartre are École Normale Supérieure alumni, French Army personnel of World War II and French Resistance members.

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John Calvin

John Calvin (Jehan Cauvin; Jean Calvin; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.

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La Marseillaise (newspaper)

La Marseillaise is a French newspaper established in 1943.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Laon

Laon is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Latin Quarter, Paris

The Latin Quarter of Paris (Quartier latin) is an area in the 5th and the 6th arrondissements of Paris.

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Léon Blum

André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. Pierre Brossolette and Léon Blum are École Normale Supérieure alumni, French Section of the Workers' International politicians, human Rights League (France) members and politicians from Paris.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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Libération-Nord

("Liberation-North") was one of the principal resistance movements in the northern occupied zone of France during the Second World War.

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List of places named after Pierre Brossolette

Many places, predominantly in France, have been named after French Resistance leader and hero Pierre Brossolette.

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Lycée Janson-de-Sailly

Lycée Janson-de-Sailly is a lycée located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Major (rank)

Major is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

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Marquis de Condorcet

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French political economist and mathematician.

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Maurice Schumann

Maurice Schumann (10 April 1911 – 9 February 1998) was a French politician, journalist, writer, and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou from 22 June 1969 to 15 March 1973. Pierre Brossolette and Maurice Schumann are Companions of the Liberation, French Section of the Workers' International politicians, politicians from Paris and Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France).

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Ministry of home affairs

The ministry of home affairs (also called ministry of internal affairs or ministry of interior) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement.

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Mouvements unis de la Résistance

Mouvements unis de la Résistance ("Unified Resistance Movements") was a French Resistance organisation, resulting from the consolidation of three major Resistance movements ("Combat", "Franc-Tireur" and "Libération-Sud") in January 1943 and also the merger of the military arms of these movements within the Armée secrète (Secret Army).

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Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.

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Narbonne plage

Narbonne plage is a resort on the southern (Mediterranean) coast of France in the Aude department.

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National Council of the Resistance

The National Council of the Resistance (Conseil National de la Résistance; CNR; also, National Resistance Council) directed and coordinated the different movements of the French Resistance during World War II: the press, trade unions and political parties hostile to the Vichy regime, starting from mid-1943.

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National Front (French Resistance)

The National Front for an Independent France, better known simply as National Front (Front national or Front national de l'indépendance de la France) was a World War II French Resistance movement created to unite all of the resistance organizations together to fight the Nazi occupation forces and Vichy France under Marshall Pétain.

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Order of Liberation

The Order of Liberation (Ordre de la Libération) is a French Order which was awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II. Pierre Brossolette and Order of Liberation are Companions of the Liberation.

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Organisation civile et militaire

The Organisation civile et militaire (OCM, "Civil and military organization") was one of the great movements of the French Resistance in the zone occupée, the German-occupied region of northern France, during the Second World War.

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Panthéon

The Panthéon (from the Classical Greek word πάνθειον,, ' to all the gods') is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France. Pierre Brossolette and Paris are Companions of the Liberation.

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Père Lachaise Cemetery

Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise; formerly, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at.

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Pierre Cot

Pierre Jules Cot (20 November 1895, in Grenoble – 21 August 1977, Paris), was a French politician and leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s.

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Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital (Hôpital universitaire de la Pitié-Salpêtrière) is a charitable hospital in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

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Plogoff

Plogoff (Plougoñ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

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Pointe du Raz

The Pointe du Raz is a promontory that extends into the Atlantic from western Brittany, in France.

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Popular Front (France)

The Popular Front (Front populaire) was an alliance of left-wing movements in France, including the French Communist Party (PCF), the socialist SFIO and the Radical-Socialist Republican Party, during the interwar period.

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Radical Party (France)

The Radical Party (Parti radical), officially the Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party (Parti républicain, radical et radical-socialiste), is a liberal and social-liberal political party in France.

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Rally of the French People

The Rally of the French People (Rassemblement du Peuple Français, RPF) was a French political party, led by Charles de Gaulle.

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Raymond Aron

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Pierre Brossolette and Raymond Aron are École Normale Supérieure alumni and French Section of the Workers' International politicians.

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Renault

Groupe Renault (also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899.

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Rennes

Rennes (Roazhon; Gallo: Resnn) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine.

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Resistance Medal

The Resistance Medal (Médaille de la Résistance) was a decoration bestowed by the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United Kingdom, during World War II.

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Rosette (decoration)

A rosette is a small, circular device that is typically presented with a medal.

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Rue de la Pompe

Rue de la Pompe is a street in Paris, France, which was named after the pump which served water to the castle of Muette.

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Rue des Saussaies

Rue des Saussaies is a short (50m long) street in the 8th arrondissement of Paris that adjoins the Ministry of the Interior.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Secularism in France

('secularism') is the constitutional principle of secularism in France.

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Sicherheitsdienst

Sicherheitsdienst ("Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.

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The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a centre-left to left-wing political party in France.

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French torture victims

Human Rights League (France) members

Recipients of the Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945

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