Archive for French resistance
Borel and Langevin jailed [in 1941]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Abwehr, Académie des Sciences, anti-fascism, Camille Marbo, collaboration, Collège de France, Emile Borel, French Navy, French resistance, IHP, Institut Henri Poincaré, Jacques Solomon, Lucien Le Cam, Nazi occupation, Paul Langevin, Pétain, Vichy régime, WW II on December 1, 2024 by xi'anWhen attending the Le Cam 100th anniversary day at IHP, I learned from Laurent Mazliak’s talk that Émile Borel Borel (then in his 70’s and a member of the French Académie des Sciences) was arrested and jailed for a few weeks in 1941, as well as Paul Langevin (both in 1940 and 1941), for political (left-wing) reasons (?), by German security services (Abwehr), with no involvement of the French collaborationist authorities who rather intervened towards their release (along with the German Navy!, unlikely connected with Borel being the minister of the French Navy in 1924!!). Possibly from denunciations sent to German forces. Possibly as a show of power by the occupying forces towards the Vichy government and Philippe Pétain. The fact that Borel and his wife, Camille Marbo, were actually engaged in the French Resistance at least from 1942 fortunately did not come to the knowledge of French police or German security. (Langevin was one of the founders of the 1934 Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes. In 1941, his son-in-law, Jacques Solomon, a physicist, got arrested and executed for founding a clandestine newspaper, l’Université libre. His daughter Hélène Solomon-Langevin got deported but survived several deportation camps.)
Resistez [mural]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags Bagneux, banlieues, French resistance, jatp, Lucie Aubrac, métro, murals, WW II on September 7, 2022 by xi'an
appel du 18 juin
Posted in Statistics with tags 18 juin 1940, appel du 18 juin, BBC, Charles de Gaulle, comics, De Gaulle à la plage, French resistance, Jean-Yves Ferri, satire, Winston Churchill, WW II on June 18, 2020 by xi'anResistance
Posted in Statistics with tags Anna Marly, anti-fascism, French resistance, la complainte du partisan, Leonard Cohen on May 25, 2014 by xi'an


