French Resistance hero, journalist and politician (1903–1944)
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Pierre Brossolette
Brossolette in 1943
Born
(1903-06-25)25 June 1903
16th arrondissement of Paris, French Third Republic
Anne Brossolette-Branco, Claude Pierre-Brossolette
Awards
Croix de Guerre
Ordre de la Libération
Médaille de la Résistance
Légion d'honneur
Website
www.pierrebrossolette.com
Pierre Brossolette (25 June 1903 – 22 March 1944) was a French journalist, politician and major hero of the French Resistance in World War II.
Brossolette ran an intelligence hub of Parisian resistance from a bookshop on rue de la Pompe, before serving as a liaison officer in London, where he also was a radio anchor for the BBC, and carried out three clandestine missions in France. Arrested in Brittany as he was trying to reach the UK on a mission back from France alongside Émile Bollaert, Brossolette was taken into custody by the Sicherheitsdienst (the security service of the SS). He committed suicide by jumping out of a window at their headquarters on 84 Avenue Foch in Paris as he feared he would reveal the lengths of French Resistance networks under torture; he died of his wounds at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital later that day.
On 27 May 2015, his ashes were transferred to the Panthéon with national honours at the request of President François Hollande, alongside politician Jean Zay and fellow Resistance members Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz.
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