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    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...
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  • Villon (1875–1963), painter Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), sculptor, brother of Jacques Villon Pierre Villon (1901–1980), French Communist Party member...
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    François Villon (Modern French: [fʁɑ̃swa vijɔ̃]; Middle French: [frãːˈswɛ viˈlõː]; c. 1431 – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle...
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    by French Communist Party (PCF) members Jacques Duclos, André Pican, Pierre Villon, and their wives, they felt that all of the Resistance movements had...
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    (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...
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    Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor. Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure...
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  • French Resistance Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French philologist and anthropologist Berthe Vicogne-Fraser (1894–1956) Pierre Villon (1901–1980), member...
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    Four meeting. Representatives of the eight major resistance movements: Pierre Villon (Front National) Roger Coquoin [fr] (Ceux de la Libération) Jacques...
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    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...
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  • forming applications Piotr Breitkopf; Hakim Naceur; Alain Rassineux; Pierre Villon, Computers and Structures, Volume 83, 17-18, 2005. Generalizing the...
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    Rosenberg (November 1941); and a clandestine edition of L'Humanité with Pierre Villon (her second husband, whom she married in 1949). She strengthened the...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    the Germans were placing explosives at strategic points around the city, Pierre Taittinger, the chairman of the municipal council, met Dietrich von Choltitz...
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    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:...
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    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...
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  • from the Soviet Union. According to the French authors Victor Loupan and Pierre Lorrain (fr), L'Humanité received free newsprint from Soviet sources. The...
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    August 1993. General Auguste Dubail (Mobilisation – 5 January 1915) General Pierre Roques (5 January 1915 – 25 March 1916) General Olivier Mazel (25–31 March...
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    anti-Constitutional, most notably because of pressure on parliamentarians from Pierre Laval. However, on 16 July 1995, president Jacques Chirac, in a speech,...
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    Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy Pierre Villon Museums and Memorials...
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    Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy Pierre Villon Museums and Memorials...
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    Moulin Emmanuel d'Astier Pierre Brossolette Charles Delestraint Henri Frenay Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Jean-Pierre Lévy Pierre Villon Museums and Memorials...
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  • Dewavrin, who had taken the nom de guerre "Colonel Passy", while journalist Pierre Brossolette (1903-44) headed the civilian-arm. The organization was preceded...
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    17 June. Other leading politicians, including Georges Mandel, Léon Blum, Pierre Mendès France, Jean Zay and Édouard Daladier (and separately Reynaud), were...
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    centers several kilometers behind the lines. The following anecdote by Pierre Clostermann suggests the spirit of the times in the Free French Forces;...
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    placed about 200,000 resistance fighters under command of General Marie Pierre Kœnig, who attempted to unify resistance efforts against the Germans. General...
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    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...
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  • Is Paris Burning? (film) (category Films with screenplays by Pierre Bost)
    Rousseau as Pierre "Colonel Fabien" Gorges, Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Georges Géret as "Commander Georges" Jean Négroni as Pierre Villon Michel Lonsdale...
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  • France created in 1943. The most well-known members are Jacques Becker, Pierre Blanchar, Louis Daquin, Jean Painlevé, and Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Members...
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