Saint Marc, de, Hélie Denoix
- Date of birth:
- February 11th, 1922
- Date of death:
- August 26th, 2013
- Nationality:
- French
Biography
Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc was a French resistance fighter. At the age og 19 he entered the resistance. in 1943 he was arrested an imprisoned in Buchenwald.
After the Second World War he joined the French Foreign Legion and fought in Vietnam and Algeria. In April 1961 he supported the "General's Putsch" against Charles de Gaulle who had accepted the Algerian independence. For this he was convicted to 10 year's imprisonment but was released in 1966.
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Croix de Guerre (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- November 28th, 2011
Sources
- - Les Champs de braises. Mémoires of Laurent Beccaria, édition Perrin, 1995, ISBN 2262011184
- Site officiel d' Hélie de Saint Marc
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