Mort pour la France

Mort pour la France (Eng: "Died for France") is a French legal term that is mostly applied to people who died in armed conflict while doing military service .

A plaque of honor for fallen soldiers from the First World War at the Montaigut-le-Blanc cemetery

Stained glass in honor of the fallen in World War I in Fermanville , designed in 1922 by Georges Merklen after the painting La vierge consolatrice by William Adolphe Bouguereau .

definition

The term is defined in L. 488 to L. 492 bis of the Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de guerre . It includes members of the French armed forces who died in combat operations or from injuries or illness in World War I , World War II , Indochina War , Algerian War , fighting in Morocco and the Tunisian War of Independence . Part of the term includes civilians who died in these conflicts.

copyright

French copyright law extends the copyright of artists with the status of Mort pour la France for 30 years in addition to the normal term of protection (see Article L. 123-10).

The normal protection periods start on January 1st after the death of the author and are:

• 94 years and 272 days for works published before January 1, 1921;
• 88 years and 120 days for works published between January 1, 1921 and December 31, 1947;
• 80 years for works published after December 31, 1947.

The works of the first authors, who are subject to the status of Mort pour la France and who died in 1914, entered the public domain on October 1st, 2009 .

Authors

The following authors have the status of Mort pour la France:

• Alain-Fournier (1914)
• Jacques Arthuys (1943)
• Guillaume Apollinaire (1918)
• Victor Basch (1944)
• Pierre Brossolette (1944)
• Benjamin Crémieux (1944)
• Louis Codet (1914)
• Joseph Déchelette (1914)
• Jacques Decour (1942)
• Jean Desbordes (1944)
• Robert Desnos (1945)
• Luc Dietrich (1944)
• Benjamin Fondane (1944)
• Maurice Halbwachs (1945)
• Max Jacob (1944)
• Régis Messac (1945)
• Léon de Montesquiou (1915)
• Irène Némirovsky (1942)
• Georges Politzer (1942)
• Charles Péguy (1914)
• Louis Pergaud (1915)
• André Ruplinger (1914)
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1944)
• Louis de la Salle (1915)
• Albert Thierry (1915)
• Georges Valois (1945)
• François Vernet (1945)
• Jean de la Ville de Mirmont (1914)
• Jean Zay (1944)

Composers

The following composers have the status of Mort pour la France:

• Jehan Alain (1940)
• Joseph Boulnois (1918)
• Émile Goué (1946)
• Fernand Halphen (1917)
• Maurice Jaubert (1940)
• René Vierne (1918)

Web links

• Formal regulations (French) on www.defense.gouv.fr
• Mémoire des Hommes - Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philippe Chéron and Sophie Delauney: Vitraux de Normandie, une histoire de la Grande Guerre . Lieux Dits, Lyon 2018, ISBN 978-2-36219-150-3 , pp. 19 .
2. ^ Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de la guerre - Chapitre Ier: Mention "Mort pour la France" . Codes-et-lois.fr. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
3. ↑ Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle (Livre I - Titre II) . Celog.fr. Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 2, 2014.