Olivier Harty de Pierrebourg

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Raimond Marie Olivier Harty de Pierrebourg (born July 10, 1908 in Vauxbuin , Aisne , Picardy , † August 22, 1973 in Paris ) was a French politician and Compagnon de la Liberation .

biography

Olivier de Pierrebourg, who was a direct descendant of General Olivier Harty, Baron de Pierrebourg (1746-1823), was born in 1908 in Vauxbuin. He studied humanities and from 1931 worked as a journalist for the Havas news agency . In parallel with this work, he took on the role of secretary for the socialist André Philip , who in 1936 became a deputy from Lyon . In 1939, with the beginning of the Second World War , Olivier de Pierrebourg was drafted into the cavalry and one year later made an ensign . In 1940 he was demobilized because he refused any contact with the Vichy regime . He was involved in the Resistance and helped numerous political refugees . In 1941 he married 18-year-old Françoise Cellery d'Allens. In May 1941 he took part in the founding of the Amitié chrétienne , which was under the patronage of Cardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier , Pastor Marc Boegner and the Mayor of Lyon, Georges Villiers. He managed to bring numerous refugees and political figures, including André Philip, to safety. In 1942 he saved several hundred Jewish children from deportation to Poland . At the same time he worked for one of the information departments of the Resistance. In 1943 he tried to reach Algiers , but he and his wife were arrested not far from the Spanish border. He was taken to the Royallieu concentration camp near Compiègne without his wife . From there he was supposed to be deported to Germany , but he jumped off the moving train. Despite a broken leg, he managed to escape his pursuers and resume his activities in the service of the Resistance.

After the war, Olivier de Pierrebourg was elected in 1951 in the Creuse department as a member of the National Assembly on the side of the Republican Party . In 1956 he was re-elected in this department, where the communist party was very strong. The French Communist Party (PCF) received 47% of the votes cast in these elections, which took place on January 2, 1956, in the Creuse. Olivier de Pierrebourg retained his seat as a member of the Creuse until his death in 1973.

In 1958, Olivier de Pierrebourg joined President Charles de Gaulle and advocated the constitutional referendum that led to a new constitution that laid the foundation for the Cinquième République . In 1971, Olivier de Pierrebourg was elected mayor of Guéret in the Limousin . A street in this city now bears his name. Olivier de Pierrebourg died in Paris on August 22, 1973. The funeral ceremonies took place in a small group in the Paris parish church of Saint-Sulpice .

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  1. ↑ Olivier HARTY DE PIERREBOURG , Assemblée Nationale Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 (French National Assembly. Database of MPs since 1789).
personal data
SURNAME Harty de Pierrebourg, Olivier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harty de Pierrebourg, Raimond Marie Oliver (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French statesman and Compagnon de la Liberation
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Vauxbuin
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1973
Place of death Paris