£300 - £500
A collection of WWII Second World War French Resistance ephemera to include a typed letter from French Resistance officer Colonel Lizé, Seine Department stamped and ink signed, a black and white photograph of Roger Pironneau with French cursive copy of his letter to his parents upon his execution along with a printed translation, a French typed letter dated 1944 titled ' Demonstrations Against Anglo-Saxon Prisoners in Paris '.
Colonel Lizé is a French soldier and resistance fighter of the Second World War, particularly known for having led the FFI of the Seine during the Liberation of Paris from the interior (before the arrival of General Leclerc 's armored vehicles ), under the command of Henri Rol-Tanguy.
Roger Pironneau was a Resistance liaison officer for the Saint-Jacques network. Making two trips a week, he took spy reports to a photographer in Saumur, in permanent contact with London. He was arrested on August 8, 1941. Imprisoned in Germany, he was sentenced to death on March 23, 1942. He was brought back to Paris to be shot at Mont-Valérien on July 29, 1942.
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