René Journiac: Quick Facts

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Born	May 11, 1921 • France
Died	February 6, 1980 (aged 58) • near Yaoundé • Cameroon
Role In	Resistance

Suger, detail of a stained glass window, 12th century; in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, Fr.

Suger

French abbot

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Nicholas Oresme

French bishop, scholar, and economist

Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour

French aristocrat

The elevation of Marc Bloch to the Pantheon

Marc Bloch

French historian

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Charles Pasqua

French politician

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Hincmar of Reims

French theologian

Simone Weil.

Simone Weil

French philosopher

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Jacques Chaban-Delmas

French politician

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Georges Bidault

prime minister of France

Paul Rivet sits at his desk in an office lined with bookshelves and filing cabinets, wearing a suit and round glasses, Paris, 1946.

Paul Rivet

French anthropologist

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Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duke de Parme

French statesman

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Pierre-Joseph-Georges Pigneau de Béhaine

Roman Catholic missionary

Commynes, portrait drawing by Jacques Le Bouco, 16th century; in the Municipal Library Arras, Fr.

Philippe de Commynes

French statesman

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Georges de La Trémoille

French noble

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Jeanne-Marie Roland

French politician

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Robert Doisneau

French photographer

Maurepas, engraving by Dupin de Franlieu, 18th century

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, count de Maurepas

French secretary of state

Duroc, portrait by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée Léon Bonnat, Bayonne, Fr.

Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc, duke de Frioul

French general

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Marie-Anne de la Trémoille, princess des Ursins

French noble

Jean du Bellay, engraving by an unknown French artist, 16th century

Jean du Bellay

French cardinal and diplomat