Aimé Lepercq

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Aimé Lepercq (1889-1944)

Aimé Marie Antoine Lepercq (2 September 1889 – 9 November 1944) was a French soldier, industrialist and political figure.

Early life and education

Born in

École des Mines.[1]

Military service

World War I

Lepercq fought in

Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1915 and receiving the British Armed Forces Military Cross. After the war, he worked as an administrator of industrial properties for the Škoda company in Czechoslovakia.[2]

World War II

On the outbreak of

Compiègne armistice of June, 1940. After a brief internment by the Germans, he returned to civil life as an industrial administrator, but was fired in 1943 for speaking out against the collaborationist administration and the Vichy regime, regarding the Service du travail obligatoire
and deportations of Frenchmen to German labor camps.

Consequently, he became an active member of the

Compagnon de la Libération; he was twice recipient of the Croix de Guerre
, for his valor in both World Wars.

Political career and death

He was selected by

Cimetière des Batignolles
.

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