Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves

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Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (born June 5, 1901 in Verrières-le-Buisson , † August 29, 1941 in Suresnes near Paris ) was a French naval officer, he is considered the "first martyr for a free France" and a hero of the French Resistance .

Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves comes from a conservative, Catholic, noble family. His cousin was the writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry .

D'Estienne d'Orves responded to Charles de Gaulle's call by London Radio on June 18, 1940 for active resistance. Initially, d'Estienne d'Orves was deployed in London. His request to be deployed in France was initially not granted out of consideration for his five children. It was not until December 1940 that he was sent to France to set up an intelligence service .

The Resistance group was betrayed from within its own ranks. D'Estienne d'Orves was arrested on January 21, 1941 and taken to the Gestapo headquarters in Nantes . On May 24, 1941, he and eight other members of the Resistance were sentenced to death by a German court martial . The convicts were taken to the Fresnes prison in Paris, where Abbé Franz Stock looked after them.

Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves was on August 29, 1941 the Mont Valerien in Surenes in Paris shot .

Since 1935 he was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and was posthumously awarded the Ordre de la Liberation on October 30, 1944 .

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SURNAME Estienne d'Orves, Henri Honoré d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Verrières-le-Buisson
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1941
Place of death Suresnes near Paris