Committed to 17 years in the fight against Nazism, then in the anticolonialist fight during the Algerian war, she had received, with her father and mother, the title of just among the nations. She died on March 4th at the age of 98.
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Born October 30, 1923 in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo (Côtes-d’Armor), very young engaged in the resistance to Nazism, then in the anticolonialist struggle, the doctor Anne Beaumanoir, doctor neurophysiologist, died the March 4, to Quimper (Finistère) at the age of 98.
She worshiped to drive, “to the Italian”, on the narrow and winding roads of his Breton campaign, as on those of the Drôme Provençale, where she had ended up piling up, after a life of jumping borders. And God knows that she has crossed walls, barbed wires and glass ceilings! Entry into the resistance at the age of 17, Anne Beaumanoir was, it’s true, at a good school.
His father, Jean, a rich family, and his mother, Martha, a young cute, daughter of farm valets, united despite the opprobrium. They are secular, antifascist, supporters of the popular front. They settled at the guildo well before their wedding. Later, at the beginning of the war, they open a coffee shop in Dinan (Côtes-d’Armor). This is where their daughter, party to study medicine in Paris and became “permanent clandestine” of the Communist Party, brings them by the train, one evening in the winter of 1944, two Jewish teens, Daniel and Simone Lisopravski. Thanks to Anne, they escaped a roll and the camps.
“Suitable carrier”
Martha and Jean welcome the two young people and hide them. The title of just among the nations will be awarded to the three Beaumanoir, in 1996. “This is what I am most proud of,” gladly confided the indefatigable Breton, which, to the end, will testify in the schools of his past Resistant and totalitarian hazard.
She had the “chance” to be born at a time when, “in a binary world, the choices were easy”, will she ensure in her autobiographical book, the fire of the memory. Resistance, communism and Algeria. 1940-1965 (Ed. Bouchene, 2009), dedicated to his children and grandchildren. We do not have to believe it. Resistant as active as it, in France, have not been legion. Those who, in the early 1950s, oppose the Algerian war are less numerous. Introduced with Francis Jeanson by his friend Marceline Loridan, Anne Beaumanoir joins, almost naturally, the cohort of “valve carriers” who support the National Liberation Front (FLN).
For months, driving his car, she serves as a driver at one of the leaders of the southern zone of the FLN Federation. At that time, she left the PCF, scalded by the first revelations of the Stalinist horror in the USSR and by the vote, in France, in March 1956, “special powers”, white-seteg granted to the army in Algeria , by the National Assembly, including communist deputies.
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