If by any chance, your steps lead you to the side of the beautiful city of Besançon, you will go up to the citadel and there you will read his words from the companion of the Liberation Henri Fertet, 16, shot here in 1943: "I want a France free and happy French ”.
Then you will head west to the Invalides to listen to those addressed, on March 2, 2021, to the Council of the Order of the Liberation by the last companion, Hubert Germain: “(the)
burning embers that we have gathered are the sum of our commitments made of heartbreak, sweat, anguish, tears, blood, suffering and grief
”.
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History and resistance
It all started on November 16, 1940. Vichy had just promulgated a statute for the Jews and had entered "on the path of collaboration within the framework of a constructive activity of the new European order".
General de Gaulle then freed "
every Frenchman from any duty towards the pseudo-government of Vichy disregarding the rights of man and the citizen and the law
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