Raymond Triboulet
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Raymond Triboulet | |
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Member of the National Assembly for Calvados | |
In office 1946–1973 | |
Succeeded by | François d'Harcourt |
Personal details | |
Born | Paris, France | 3 October 1906
Died | 26 May 2006 Sèvres, France | (aged 99)
Political party | UDR |
Raymond Triboulet (3 October 1906 – 26 May 2006) was a French politician. He was a leading World War II resistance fighter who helped U.S., Canadian, and British troops invade France, which was then occupied by Nazi Germany.
Biography
Born in Paris, Raymond Triboulet was a farmer and also had a law degree. At the start of World War II he enlisted in the French Army and was taken prisoner, but was later freed and returned home under the German occupation in 1941. He then joined the Calvados section of the group "Ceux de la Résistance", or Those of the Resistance.
By informing Allied forces of German movements between the towns of
He was elected to Parliament in 1946 and served until 1973. He served as a minister in the governments of Michel Debré and Georges Pompidou from 1959 to 1966 and then became a member of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament.
He was elected to the
Publications
- Un gaulliste de la IVe, Plon, 1985 (A Gaullist from the IVth Republic)
- Un ministre du Général, Plon, 1985 (Minister to the General)
External links
- Obituary, The Guardian, 16 June 2006 accessed at [1] 19 July 2006
- Raymond Triboulet accessed at fr:Raymond Triboulet 21:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)