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- On 11 November, German troops once again occupied Lyon. The occupation was now complete, and the union of the Resistance movements became a necessity. Jean Moulin created the Conseil National de la Résistance (National Council of the Resistance) and, on 26 January 1943, the Unified Movements of the Resistance was founded in Lyon.
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In the footsteps of Jean Moulin (Circuit No. 1) Rue Jean Moulin, a memorial to Jean Moulin is located in this street, between numbers 1b and 5. He was first appointed prefect in March 1937, and was the youngest prefect in France. In 1939, he was Prefect of the Eure-et-Loir department in Chartres when the German troops entered the city.
The French Resistance ( French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2] [3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...
- June 1940-October 1944
- Occupied France
Sep 3, 2019 · Lyon was a stronghold of Free France during World War II until its occupation in 1942. It was liberated by joint French and US forces in September 1944.
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- Naira Davlashyan , Sandrine Amiel
May 5, 2024 · Memories of war endure in the collective consciousness of France, and Lyon is a particular reminder of that period as it was both a center for Nazi forces and a stronghold of the French Resistance.
- Lyon: Poverty & Insurrection
- The Siege
- Retribution
- Doom at Lyon
- Aftermath
The Lyon of the late 18th century was a huge city for the time, with a population of well over 120,000. Widely recognized as France’s second city, behind only Paris in terms of population and importance, Lyon was unique in that it was dominated by a single advanced manufacturing industry; namely, that of silkproduction. For decades, the silk indust...
Following their coup, the new Lyonnais city government realized it was not enough to cast off the yoke of their local Jacobins alone; seeing as revolutionary power had become so concentrated in the hands of the Jacobins in Paris, it became necessary to cast off the authority of Paris as well. Lyon decided to do exactly that after the fall of the Gi...
Initially, it seemed as though Couthon only wanted to return Lyon to its pre-revolt status quo. He guillotined around 30 of the rebellion’s ringleaders and imprisoned most of the rest. The general population, he decided, had simply been misled, and would be pardoned of their crimes if they recanted their actions and swore allegiance to the Republic...
The two men who went to Lyon were not the Robespierrist brand of Jacobin that Couthon was, but were instead Hébertists, a more extreme faction. These men would, in time, become bitter rivals with Robespierre and help bring about his fall. For now, they were his partisans, however begrudgingly, and were sent to do the Republic’s dirty work. Collot d...
In late December 1793, Collot d’Herbois and Joseph Fouché were recalled to Paris, as the National Convention had become horrified by the rumors of their atrocities. Tensions continued to rise between the Robespierrists and the butchers of Lyon, until Collot and Fouché helped to bring about the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, the event that ended th...
May 18, 2015 · The French Resistance movement is an umbrella term which covered numerous anti-German resistance movements that were based within France. There were resistance movements that took direct orders from the Special Operations Executive , there was the communist resistance, groups loyal to de Gaulle , regional resistance movements that wanted ...
The Resistance and Deportation History Center is housed in the former military Health College, in the very building used by the Head of the Gestapo in Lyon, and is a powerfully symbolic place in the service of history and remembrance .
