Source: National Archives & Historic Records of France
History • Historical Archive • 🇫🇷 France • 3 views

Pierre Brossolette 🇫🇷

Pierre Brossolette (Known as "Voice of Free France")
Journalist, Heroic Resistance Leader, Voice of Radio Londres, Panthéon Martyr
Born Jun 25, 1903 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Passed Away Mar 22, 1944 Paris (Gestapo Headquarters, Avenue Foch), France
Lifespan 40 years old
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"Ceux qui sont morts ne sont pas morts pour rien; ils ont fait de leur sacrifice l'aurore de notre liberté."

Archival Overview

Heroic intellectual leader of the French Resistance and stirring voice of Radio Londres who united northern resistance networks with Free France and gave his life by jumping from a Gestapo window to protect his comrades.

Biographical Record

A brilliant graduate of the École Normale Supérieure in history and leading socialist foreign affairs journalist, Brossolette opened a bookstore on Rue Pompe in Paris in 1940 that served as a secret resistance clearinghouse and intelligence center.

Working for the BCRA in London alongside General de Gaulle, his baritone radio broadcasts rallied the occupied nation ('Salut et fraternité'). Parachuted repeatedly into occupied France, he coordinated the National Council of the Resistance alongside Jean Moulin. Arrested in Brittany in 1944, he endured two days of horrific torture before leaping from the 5th floor of 84 Avenue Foch.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Panthéon (Inducted by President François Hollande in 2015)
Paris, France
GPS: 48.8464, 2.3461
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