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  2. List of people involved with the French Resistance - Wikipedia

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    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; Germaine Guérin, brothel owner in Lyons

  3. French Resistance - Wikipedia

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    The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2] [3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...

  4. Maquis (World War II) - Wikipedia

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    The Maquis (French pronunciation: ⓘ) were rural guerrilla bands of French and Belgian Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during World War II. Initially, they were composed of young, mostly working-class, men who had escaped into the mountains and woods to avoid conscription into Vichy France 's Service du travail obligatoire (STO ...

  5. French Forces of the Interior - Wikipedia

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    The French Forces of the Interior (FFI; French: Forces françaises de l'Intérieur) were French resistance fighters in the later stages of World War II. Charles de Gaulle used it as a formal name for the resistance fighters.

  6. Simone Segouin - Wikipedia

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    Simone Segouin (French: [simɔn səɡwɛ̃]; 3 October 1925 – 21 February 2023), also known by her nom de guerre Nicole Minet (French: [nikɔl minɛ]), was a French Resistance fighter who served in the Francs-tireurs et partisans group during World War II. Among her first acts of resistance was stealing a bicycle from a German patrol, which ...

  7. Category:French Resistance members - Wikipedia

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    Charles de Gaulle in World War II (3 C, 12 P) Communist members of the French Resistance (2 C, 124 P) ... Pages in category "French Resistance members"

  8. While France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, Missak Manouchian and his Resistance fighters’ heroic role in World War II are often overlooked. French President Emmanuel Macron is ...

  9. Francs-Tireurs et Partisans - Wikipedia

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    The Francs-tireurs et partisans français [a] (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃ tiʁœʁ e paʁtizɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ], FTPF), or commonly the Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP), was an armed resistance organization created by leaders of the French Communist Party during World War II (1939–45).

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