Franc-Tireur (resistance movement)
The Franc-Tireur Resistance Group was founded in 1941 in Lyon by Jean-Pierre Lévy and Antoine Avinin in the initially unoccupied southern zone of France.
organization
The group was led by Lévy and consisted of socialists , communists and liberals who, out of disgust for the Vichy regime, had subscribed to the ideal of an independent French republic.
In December 1941, the group began to publish the underground newspaper Franc-Tireur , which appeared regularly monthly and initially had a circulation of 5,000 copies, in August 1944 a circulation of 150,000 copies. Among the people involved in this underground newspaper was the famous historian Marc Bloch .
Although the group had its main focus in Lyon, it had members in the Auvergne , the Limousin and the Mediterranean.
In February 1942 Lévy took up talks with Jean Moulin about the unification of the three resistance groups operating in the southern zone,
- the franc-shooter,
- the Combat Henri Frenays and
- the Liberation Sud by Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie on,
which resulted in the establishment of the Mouvements Unis de Résistance (MUR).
In May 1943 Jean Moulin finally achieved that in addition to the three groups mentioned above
- the Front National by Pierre Villon ,
- the Comité d'action socialiste of Pierre Brossolette and
- the Armée secrète of Charles Delestraints
together with the Resistance groups from the northern zone
- Organization civile et militaire OCM
- Liberation North
- Ceux de la Resistance
- Ceux de la Liberation
the Conseil national de la Résistance (CNR; dt National Resistance Council ), a kind of resistance parliament in the underground. In doing so, they documented their will that the internal resistance, together with the external committee France libre , would now form the fighting France ( France combattante ), in contrast to the collaborating France of the Vichy regime. At the same time, this underground parliament gave Charles de Gaulle a political backing by accepting his command and refusing to be subordinate to General Henri Giraud .
Some other members of the Franc-Tireur resistance group
- Edouard Alexander
- Georges Altman
- Eugène Claudius-Petit
- Noël Clavier
- Yves Farge
- André Ferrat
- Elie Péju
- Auguste Pinton
- Albert Rohmer
- Henri Romans-Petit
- Jean-Jacques Soudeille