Aimé Lepercq
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French politician
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
.
References
- ISSN 0035-2004.
- ISBN 9781400878321.
- ISBN 9780300124354.
- ISBN 9780807866801.
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