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Lucie Aubrac, one of the great figures of the French Resistance, has passed away yesterday at the age of 94.
Lucie Aubrac was born Lucie Bernard on June 29 , 1912 in the region of Mâcon. Before the war, she studied History at the Sorbonne University and the Ecole Normale, from which she received the highest teaching diploma. She then started to teach History.
As soon as 1940, she became involved in the Resistance in Lyon with her husband, Raymond Aubrac and she contributed to the founding of one of the first resistance movements, Liberation-South. Together with Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, they founded one of the most important clandestine newspapers: Libération.
As the head of an armed commando, she carried out, among other actions, a military action to liberate her husband, then one of the main leaders of the French resistance, from the hands of SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the success of this operation, the couple left France in February 1944 to join de Gaulle in London and then in Algiers.
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