List of people involved with the French Resistance

People involved with the French Resistance include:

## A

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* José Aboulker (1920–2009)
* Berty Albrecht (1893–1943)
* Dimitri Amilakhvari (1906–1942), French-Georgian Prince
* Louis Aragon (1897–1982), poet, novelist and editor, husband of Elsa Triolet
* Raymond Aron (1905–1983)
* Pierre Arrighi [fr] (1921–1944)
* Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie (1900–1969)
* Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie (1897–1952), Roman Catholic conservative politician
* Lucie Aubrac (1912–2007)
* Marie-Thérèse Auffray (1912–1990), artist
* Jacqueline Auriol (1917–2000)
* Vera Atkins, (1907–2000), SOE

## B

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* Josephine Baker (1906–1975), African American singer, dancer,
* Joe Balfe O.B.E and family Hornoy-le- Bourg Amiens (The Balfe Line)
* Louis Bancel (1926–1978), sculptor
* Raoul Batany (1926–1944), assassin of Arthur Marissal [fr]
* Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish writer, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Georges Bégué (1911–1993), SOE
* Robert Benoist (1895–1944)
* Charles Berty (1911–1944), French professional cyclist
* Georges Bidault (1899–1983)
* Monique de Bissy (1923–2009)
* Georges Blind [fr] (1904–1944)
* André Bloch (French Resistance) [fr] (1914–1942)
* Denise Bloch (1916–1945)
* Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian, founded the Annales School of historiography
* France Bloch-Sérazin (1913–1943), chemist, bomb-maker for the Resistance
* Tony Bloncourt (1921–1942)
* Marc Boegner (1881–1970)
* Cristina Luca Boico (1916–2002)
* Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle (1922–1942), assassinated admiral François Darlan
* Claude Bourdet (1909–1996), co-founder of Combat
* Éliane Brault (1898–1982)
* Gilberte Brossolette (1905–2004), French journalist and politician
* Pierre Brossolette (1903–1944)

## C

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* Claude Cahun (1894–1954), French photographer, sculptor and writer
* Albert Camus (1913–1960), French novelist, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature
* Marcel Carné (1906–1996), French film director
* Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), French photographer
* Rouben Melik (1921–2007), French-Armenian poet
* Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991), later to become Prime minister of Iran during last days of Iranian Revolution
* Roger Carcassonne (1911–1991)
* Donald Caskie (1902–1983)
* Neus Català (1915–2019), Spanish Holocaust survivor and Republican militan
* Jean Cavaillès (1903–1944)
* Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915–2000)
* René Char (1907–1988)
* Marie-Louise Charpentier 1905–1998
* Peter Churchill (1909–1972), SOE
* Eugène Claudius-Petit (1907–1989)
* Marianne Cohn (1922–1944)
* Roger Coquoin [fr] (1897–1943)
* Daniel Cordier (1920–2020), secretary of Jean Moulin and later historian
* René-Yves Creston (1898–1964), Breton artist and ethnographer
* Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), poet, writer and anarchist who worked in London as a translator

## D

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* Apolônio de Carvalho (1912–2005), Brazilian revolutionary
* Jacques Decour (1910–1942), French writer
* Charlotte Delbo (1913–1985)
* Catherine Dior (1917–2008) sister of French Couturier, Christian Dior
* Jacques Desoubrie (1922–1949)
* Martha Desrumeaux (1897–1982)
* François Ducaud-Bourget (1897–1984), Roman Catholic priest
* Jacques Duclos (1896–1975)
* Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), French writer

## E

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* Jacques Ellul (1912–1994)
* Paul Éluard (1895–1952), French poet
* Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (1901–1941), French right wing naval officer
* Joseph Epstein (1911–1944)

## F

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* Valentin Feldman (1909–1942), French philosopher
* Henri Fertet (1926–1943), schoolboy and Resistance fighter
* Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), wife of David Feuerwerker, member of Combat
* David Feuerwerker, (1912–1980), rabbi of Brive-la-Gaillarde, 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 government
* Varian Fry (1907–1967), American journalist

## G

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* Cristino García (1914–1946)
* Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (1920–2002), niece of General de Gaulle
* Salomon Gluck (1914–1944), physician
* John Howard Griffin (1920–1980), journalist and author best known for his 1959 project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line first-hand published under the title Black Like Me (1961)
* Gheorghe Gaston Grossmann (1918–2010) (changed his name from Grossman to Marin after he returned to Romania after World War II)
* Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), better known as Abbé Pierre, Catholic priest and Maquis
* William Grover-Williams (1903–1945), Anglo-French racing driver
* Albert Guérisse (1911–1989)
* Georges Guingouin (1913–2005), communist resistance
* Charles Geffroy (1920–1997), French Resistance

## H

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* Virginia Hall (1906–1982), American spy, SOE
* Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist
* Boris Holban (1908–2004), leader of the FTP-MOI
* Michel Hollard (1898–1993)
* Wilhelm Holst (1895–1949) SOE
* Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
* André Hue (1923–2005), SOE
* Max Hymans (1900–1961)

## I

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* René Iché (1897–1954), artist, sculptor

## J

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* Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903–1985)
* Éliane Jeannin-Garreau (1911–1999)
* Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), French actor
* Germain Jousse (1895–1988)

## K

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* Bernard Karsenty (1920–2007)
* Marcelle Kellermann
* Chana Kowalska (1899–1942), Polish Jewish painter and journalist
* Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (1914–2006)

## L

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Jacques Levi, b 1899 Nice France, d 1971, Panama City Panama

* Marcel Langer (French Resistance) [fr] (1903–1943)
* Joseph Laniel (1889–1975)
* Madeleine Lavigne (1912–1945), Isabelle, agent of the Special Operations Executive
* Jacques Lecompte-Boinet [fr] (1905–1974)
* Édouard Le Jeune (1921–2017), former Senator
* André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986)
* André Le Troquer (1884–1963)
* Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971)

## M

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* André Malraux (1901–1976) ("Colonel Berger"), French writer and government minister
* Missak Manouchian (1906–1944), poet, leader of the eponymous network as part of FTP-MOI
* Robert Marjolin (1911–1986)
* Suzanne Masson (1901–1943)
* Marie Médard (1921–2013)
* Lucien Julien Meline (1901–1943)
* Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), French film director
* Pierre Mendès-France (1907–1982), French politician
* Pierre Meunier (1908–1996), General Secretary of the CNR
* Edmond Michelet (1899–1970), last to leave Dachau while aiding the sick, twice government minister after the war
* Jacques Monod (1910–1976), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1965)
* Marcel Moore (1892–1972), French illustrator, designer, and photographer
* Jean Moulin (1899–1943), head of the CNR

## N

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* Prince Louis Napoléon (1914–1997), pretender to the French Imperial throne
* Eileen Nearne (1921–2010), SOE, Agent Rose
* Camille Nicolas [fr] (1895–1967), French Resistance Leader
* Odette Nilès (1922–2023)
* Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles (1893–1945), French nobleman and the 6th Duke of Ayen[1][2]
* Suzanne Noël (1878–1954), French plastic surgeon

## P

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* Andrée Peel (1905–2010), Agent Rose
* Édith Piaf (1915–1963), French singer
* Pablo Picasso (1881–1973, Spanish artist)
* Thérèse Pierre (1908–1943)
* Jean Pierre-Bloch (1905–1999)
* Christian Pineau (1904–1995)
* Gabriel Plançon (1919–1943), French resistance fighter
* Eliane Plewman (1917–1944), SOE
* Georges Politzer (1903–1942)
* Francis Ponge (1899–1988)
* Jean Prévost (1901–1944), writer, conceived and organized the Maquis du Vercors

## R

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* Adrienne Ranc-Sakakini (1916–2014), member of F2 network in Marseille
* Paul Rassinier (1906–1967), member of Libération-Nord
* Adam Rayski (1913–2008), FTP-MOI leader
* Serge Ravanel (1920–2009)
* Gilbert Renault (1904–1984)
* Jean-François Revel (1924–2006), French writer and philosopher
* Marc Riboud (1923–2016), photographer, participated in the Maquis du Vercors
* Madeleine Riffaud (born 1924), French poet and war correspondent
* Yvonne Rokseth (1890–1948), French composer, musicologist, and teacher
* André Rogerie (1921–2014), French writer and Holocaust survivor
* Justus Rosenberg (1921–2021), Jewish-Polish professor of literature

## S

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* Alexander Sachal (1924–2020), Russian artist
* Armand Salacrou (1899–1989)
* Raymond Samuel (1914–2012), alias Raymond Aubrac
* Solange Sanfourche (1922–2013), alias Marie-Claude
* Odette Sansom (1912–1995), SOE
* Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism
* Jorge Semprún (1923–2011), Spanish writer, member of FTP and then FTP-MOI, later Culture Minister of Spain
* Ariadna Scriabina (1905–1944), daughter of composer Alexander Scriabin, co-founder of the Armée Juive
* Marcelle Semmer (1895 – c. 1944), recipient of the Croix de Guerre (1915)
* Claude Simon (1913–2005)
* Susana Soca (1906–1959), Uruguayan poet and socialité
* Raymond Sommer (1906–1950, French racing driver
* Suzanne Spaak (1905–1944), sister-in-law of Paul-Henri Spaak
* Roger Stéphane (1919–1994), French journalist
* Evelyne Sullerot (1924–2017), historian and sociologist
* Violette Szabo (1921–1945), SOE

## T

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* François Tanguy-Prigent (1909–1970)
* Paul Tarascon (1882–1977), World War I flying ace
* Drue Leyton (1903–1997), also known as Dorothy Tartière
* Édith Thomas (1909–1979), French historian and journalist
* Germaine Tillion (1907–2008), French anthropologist
* Charles Tillon (1897–1993), member of FTP
* Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), writer, wife of Louis Aragon
* Michael Trotobas, 1914–1943), "Capitaine Michel," agent, Special Operations Executive
* Madeleine Truel (1904–1945)
* Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), French-Romanian poet

## V

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* Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (1912–1996)
* Rose Valland (1898–1980), French art historian and museum curator of Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
* Marina Vega (1923–2011), Spanish spy for French Resistance
* Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French philologist and anthropologist
* Berthe Vicogne-Fraser (1894–1956)
* Pierre Villon (1901–1980), member of FTP, one of the three leaders of the Committee of Military action created by the Conseil National de la Résistance
* Jean de Vomécourt [fr] (1899–1945)
* Philippe de Vomécourt (1902–1964)
* Pierre de Vomécourt (1906–1986)
* Traian Vuia (1872–1950), Romanian inventor

## W

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* Nancy Wake (1912–2011), SOE
* Gabrielle Weidner (1914–1945)
* Johan Hendrik Weidner (1912–1994)
* Simone Weil (1909–1943)
* Suzanne Wesse (1914–1942)
* Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908–1949), French racing driver

## Y

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* Chuck Yeager (1923–2020), American test pilot, one of the Allied pilots shot down over France who made it back to England with the help of the Resistance

## References

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1. ^ Martin, Georges (1993). Histoire et généalogie de la maison de Noailles.
2. ^ "Le tribunal militaire de Paris condamne à vingt ans de réclusion une collaboratrice de la Gestapo accusée d'avoir dénoncé le duc d'Ayen" [The Paris military court sentences a Gestapo collaborator accused of having denounced the Duke of Ayen to twenty years of imprisonment]. Le Monde (in French). 18 November 1952.

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Creation
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* Charles de Gaulle during World War II
* Appeal of 18 June
* Departmental Committee of Liberation
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Free France|

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* Battles
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Domestic
operations|

* Movements:
* Combat
* Franc-Tireur
* Francs-Tireurs et Partisans
* FTP–Foreign Labour Force
* French Forces of the Interior
* Libération-Nord
* Libération-Sud
* Mouvements unis
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* Ceux de la Libération
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* Networks:
* Alliance
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* Brutus
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* Confrérie Notre-Dame
* Others:
* Armée secrète
* Organisation civile et militaire
* Jade-Amicol
* Jade-Fitzroy
* Maquis
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* Women
* Housewives' demonstrations
* Union des femmes françaises

Underground
media|

* Bir-Hakeim [fr]
* Bulletin [fr]
* Combat
* Défense de la France
* Les Éditions de Minuit
* L'Espoir [fr]
* Franc-Tireur
* Front National
* L'Humanité
* Les Lettres Françaises
* Libération (nord) [fr]
* Libération (sud)
* Résistance [fr]
* Témoignage chrétien
* La Vérité française [fr]
* La Voix du Nord

Free
French
Africa|

* Brazzaville Conference
* Brazzaville manifesto
* French Chad
* Empire Defense Council
* Free French Africa
* French Cameroon
* French Congo
* French Gabon
* March battalions
* First [fr]
* Second [fr]
* Operation Marie
* Ubangi-Shari

Liberation
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* Kieffer commandos
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* General de Lattre
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* Liberation of France
* Liberation of Paris
* Liberation of Strasbourg
* Provisional Government

Leaders|

* Charles de Gaulle
* Jean Moulin
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* Pierre Brossolette
* Charles Delestraint
* Henri Frenay
* Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
* Jean-Pierre Lévy
* Pierre Villon

Museums and
Memorials|

* Order of Liberation
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* Resistance Medal
* Medal of the Righteous
* Mémorial de la France combattante
* Museum of National Resistance [fr]
* Museums and memorials
* Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
* Free France Foundation [fr]

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Liberation of France

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Forces|

* Army of Africa
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* 4th
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* 4th Moroccan Mountain
* Second Army
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Leaders|

* Charles de Gaulle
* Jean Moulin
* Winston Churchill
* Bernard Montgomery
* Henri Giraud
* Dwight D. Eisenhower
* Raymond O. Barton
* George S. Patton
* Philippe Leclerc
* Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
* Philippe Kieffer

Administration|

* Empire Defense Council
* French Civil and Military High Command
* French National Committee
* French Committee of National Liberation
* Provisional Consultative Assembly
* Provisional Government

French
campaign|

| Nov 1940|

* Battle of Gabon

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Jun 1941|

* Syria–Lebanon campaign

Dec 1941|

* Capture of Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Nov 1942|

* Operation Torch
* Tunisian campaign
* Battle of Réunion

Sept 1943|

* Liberation of Corsica

Jan 1944|

* Battle of Vercors
* Battle of Glières

March 1944|

* Liberation of Limousin

May 1944|

* Battle of Mont Mouchet

Jun 1944|

* Operation Overlord
* Battle of Carentan
* Battle of Cherbourg
* Battle for Caen
* Liberation of Limousin
* Tulle massacre
* Liberation of Guéret [fr]
* Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
* Maquis de Saint-Marcel
* Maquis de Saffré
* Battle of Ushant

July 1944|

* Liberation of Saint-Lô
* Battle of Mont Gargan [fr]
* Operation Cobra

Aug 1944|

* Battle for Brittany
* Rennes
* Saint-Malo
* Liberation of Brest
* Atlantic pockets:
* Lorient
* Saint-Nazaire
* Lioran [fr]
* Égletons [fr]
* Battle of Port Cros
* Battle of La Ciotat
* Provence landings
* Liberation of Toulon
* Liberation of Marseille
* Liberation of Paris
* Maillé massacre
* Liberation of Guéret [fr]
* Battle of Montélimar [fr]
* Liberation of Nice [fr]

Sept 1944|

* Liberation of Nancy
* Operation Astonia
* Operation Undergo
* Atlantic pockets:
* La Rochelle
* Royan
* Dunkirk
* Battle of Arracourt
* Battle of Meximieux [fr]

Nov 1944 -
March 1945|

* Battle of Alsace
* Liberation of Strasbourg
* Colmar Pocket
* Bitche [fr]

Apr 1945|

* Atlantic pockets:
* Royan

May 1945|

* Atlantic pockets:
* Dunkirk
* La Rochelle
* Lorient
* Saint-Nazaire

Aftermath|

* End of Vichy
* 1945 municipal elections
* Advance to the Rhine
* Invasion of Germany
* End of World War II in Europe
* Victory in Europe Day
* Victory Day
* Provisional Government
* Épuration légale
* Épuration sauvage
* Tripartisme
* 1946 legislative election
* Fourth Republic
* Trente Glorieuses
* Trial of Philippe Pétain
* Klaus Barbie trial

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* Sino Japanese

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