- Raymond Triboulet
Raymond Triboulet (
October 3 1906 –May 26 2006 ) was a French politician. He was a leadingWorld War II resistance fighter who helped U.S., Canadian, and British troops invadeFrance , which was then occupied by Nazi Germany.Biography
Born in
Paris , Raymond Triboulet was a farmer and also had a law degree. At the start ofWorld War II he enlisted in the French Army and was taken prisoner, but was later freed and returned home under the German occupation in 1941. He then joined the Calvados section of the group "Ceux de la Résistance", or Those of the Resistance.By informing Allied forces of German movements between the towns of
Caen andBayeux , he contributed to the success of theD-Day landings ofJune 6 ,1944 . Following the reinstatement of a legitimate French government,de Gaulle appointed him the first local governor of liberated France, in theNormandy town of Bayeux.He was elected to Parliament in 1946 and served until 1973. He served as a minister in the governments of
Michel Debré andGeorges Pompidou from 1959 to 1966 and then became a member of theCouncil of Europe and theEuropean Parliament .He was elected to the
Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1979, serving as its president in 1991.Publications
*"Un gaulliste de la IVe", Plon, 1985 ("A Gaullist from the IVth Republic")
*"Un ministre du Général", Plon, 1985 ("Minister to the General")
External links
*Obituary, The Guardian, June 16, 2006 accessed at [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1798887,00.html] July 19, 2006
* Raymond Triboulet accessed at [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Triboulet] 21:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
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