List of people involved with the French Resistance

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People involved with the French Resistance include:

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Jacques Levi, b 1899 Nice France, d 1971, Panama City Panama

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References

  1. ↑ Martin, Georges (1993). Histoire et généalogie de la maison de Noailles.
  2. ↑ "Le tribunal militaire de Paris condamne à vingt ans de réclusion une collaboratrice de la Gestapo accusée d'avoir dénoncé le duc d'Ayen" [The Paris military court sentences a Gestapo collaborator accused of having denounced the Duke of Ayen to twenty years of imprisonment]. Le Monde (in French). 18 November 1952.
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