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by Melanchthon
Lucie Aubrac, one of the great figures of the French Resistance, has passed away yesterday at the age of 94. Lucie Aubrac was born Lucie Bernard on June 29 , 1912 in the region of Mâcon. Before the war, she studied History at the Sorbonne University from which she received the highest teaching diploma. She then started to teach History. As soon as 1940, she engaged in the Resistance in Lyon with her husband, Raymond Aubrac and she contributed to the founding of one of the first resistance movements, Liberation-South. Together with Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, they founded one of the most important clandestine newspapers: Libération. As the head of an armed commando, she carried out, among other actions, a military action to liberate her husband from the hands of SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the success of this operation, the couple left France in February 1944 to join de Gaulle in London and then in Algiers. After the war, in 1945, when the French women obtained the voting rights for the first time, she created the Privilège newspaper of women, which lasted for a few months. She was a member of the Consultative Assembly resulting from the Resistance and charged with supervising the Departmental Committees of Liberation. She then resumed the teaching of History and kept campaigning for Human Rights. After she retired from teaching, Lucie Aubrac kept relentlessly going to high-schools to explain the resistance to the students. Lucie Aubrac published several books, among which was one published in 1984, "They left, wild with joy", an account of the escape that she organized to liberate her husband from Klaus Barbie. Lucie Aubrac was a great Frenchwoman - afew
Contrary to what those who think the European Union was created by the Anglo-Saxon neoliberals claim, many of the ideas which were implemented in Europe came from the French National Resistance Council Programme written clandestinely in 1944.
Here is an appeal Lucie Aubrac signed, together with 12 other former resistance fighters in 2004 for the 60th anniversary of the French National Resistance Council: Video (in French) where her husband Raymond Aubrac appears. Here is the text:
Thank you, Lucie. |
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A tribute to Lucie Aubrac | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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