Pierre Villon (27 August 1901 in Soultz-Haut-Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine – 6 November 1980 in Vallauris, Alpes-Maritimes) was a member of the French Communist...

François Villon (Modern French: [fʁɑ̃swa vijɔ̃]; Middle French: [frãːˈswɛ viˈlõː]; c. 1431 – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle...

(Libération) Jean-Pierre Lévy (Francs-tireurs) Pierre Villon (Front national, not to be confused with the later political party of the same name) Pierre Brossolette...

by French Communist Party (PCF) members Jacques Duclos, André Pican, Pierre Villon, and their wives, they felt that all of the Resistance movements had...

Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor. Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure...

painter Pierre Villon (1901–1980), French Communist Party member Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), French sculptor, brother of Jacques Villon This page...

French Resistance Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French philologist and anthropologist Berthe Vicogne-Fraser (1894–1956) Pierre Villon (1901–1980), member...

refused by the minority of Vichy 80. In particular, coercive measures used by Pierre Laval have been denounced by those historians who hold that the vote did...

Four meeting. Representatives of the eight major resistance movements: Pierre Villon (Front National) Roger Coquoin [fr] (Ceux de la Libération) Jacques...

the Axis in November 1942. Marshal Philippe Pétain, Vichy's main leader. Pierre Laval, head of government 1942-1944 Vichy French Army Vichy French Navy...

forming applications Piotr Breitkopf; Hakim Naceur; Alain Rassineux; Pierre Villon, Computers and Structures, Volume 83, 17-18, 2005. Generalizing the...

Rosenberg (November 1941); and a clandestine edition of L'Humanité with Pierre Villon (her second husband, whom she married in 1949). She strengthened the...

where he led a guerrilla war against the French administration. In 1957–58, Pierre Messmer, a Gaullist and head of the haut-commissaire of Cameroon (executive...

resistance groups united in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) under Pierre Villon, the former editor of the magazine L’Humanité. Their job was four-fold:...

bank of the Congo River. The treaty was signed between King Iloo I and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza; Iloo I died the same year it was signed, but the terms...

the Germans were placing explosives at strategic points around the city, Pierre Taittinger, the chairman of the municipal council, met Dietrich von Choltitz...

Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy Pierre Villon Museums and Memorials...

Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy Pierre Villon Museums and Memorials...

Dewavrin, who had taken the nom de guerre "Colonel Passy", while journalist Pierre Brossolette (1903-44) headed the civilian-arm. The organization was preceded...

mother warning that war with Germany was inevitable and reassuring her that Pierre Laval's pact with the USSR in 1935 was for the best, likening it to Francis...

Rousseau as Pierre "Colonel Fabien" Gorges, Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Georges Géret as "Commander Georges" Jean Négroni as Pierre Villon Michel Lonsdale...

17 June. Other leading politicians, including Georges Mandel, Léon Blum, Pierre Mendès France, Jean Zay and Édouard Daladier (and separately Reynaud), were...

centers several kilometers behind the lines. The following anecdote by Pierre Clostermann suggests the spirit of the times in the Free French Forces;...

placed about 200,000 resistance fighters under command of General Marie Pierre Kœnig, who attempted to unify resistance efforts against the Germans. General...

June 1942). The 1st Free French Brigade under Général de brigade Marie-Pierre Kœnig defended the position from 26 May – 11 June against Axis forces of...

after the end of World War II. A French-language film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Le Silence de la mer, was released in 1949. A second English-language...

fighters against the German occupation. In 1943, three men, mountaineer Pierre Dalloz, soldier Alain Le Ray, and writer Jean Prévost planned to use the...

French Resistance movement during World War II. It was founded in 1941 by Pierre Fourcaud, parachuted in France with instructions from Charles de Gaulle...

August 1993. General Auguste Dubail (Mobilisation – 5 January 1915) General Pierre Roques (5 January 1915 – 25 March 1916) General Olivier Mazel (25–31 March...

Bir Hakeim box was defended by the 1st Free French Brigade under Marie-Pierre Kœnig. On 27 May, the Italian IX Tank Battalion of the 132nd Tank Infantry...