André Girard (1901-1968)

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Not to be confused with André Girard (1909-1993), a member of the ALLIANCE network.

André Girard (1901-1968) was a French painter, poster-maker and Resistance worker. During the Second World War he founded and headed the CARTE network, also taking "Carte" as his personal codename.

He was awarded the American Legion of Merit.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Thomas Rabino, Le Réseau Carte, histoire d'un réseau de la Résistance antiallemand, antigaulliste, anticommuniste et anticollaborationniste, Paris, Perrin, 2008.

[edit] Works

  • Bataille secrète en France, Brentano's, New York, 1944.
  • Peut-on dire la vérité sur la Résistance ?, Éditions du Chêne, 1947.
  • Hitler Staline et compagnie, Dessins politiques de 1934 à 1942, Buchet-Chastel 2005 (preface by Danièle Delorme, chronology and historical commentaries by Pascal Imaho)

[edit] Sources and external links

  • (French) Atelier An.Girard Official site.
  • Michael Richard Daniell Foot, SOE in France. An account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940-1944, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966, 1968 ; Whitehall History Publishing, in association with Frank Cass, 2004. Ce livre présente la version officielle britannique de l’histoire du SOE en France. Une référence.
  • Peter Churchill, Missions secrètes en France, 1941-1943, Presses de la Cité, 1967.
  • Thomas Rabino, "André Girard", in Dictionnaire historique de la Résistance, Robert Laffont, 2006.
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