A tribute will be paid on February 19 in the courtyard of the Invalides to the resistance fighter and deportee Yves Meyer.
He died on January 31, in his 101st year, just days before the February 9 celebration of the 81st anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's creation of the French Resistance medal.
Yves Meyer received this decoration by decree of October 15, 1945. Also commander of the Legion of Honor, he was a member since 2022 of the National Medal Commission, where he still sat on September 22.
Born on December 18, 1923 in Paris, this fighter of the “army of shadows” with Alsatian family origins has spent many years testifying, particularly to young people, about his journey as a resistance fighter and deportee.
A testimony that is at once restrained, precise and moving.
In February 2022, this man, arrested and escaped several times, said:
“My life is a succession of luck”
and confided to Le
Figaro
that he had
“always wanted to resist”.
He added…
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