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  • NAME: Lucie Aubrac
  • OCCUPATION: Folk Hero
  • BIRTH DATE: June 29, 1912
  • DEATH DATE: March 14, 2007
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Macon, France
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
  • Originally: Lucie Bernard

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Lucie Aubrac was a French resistance leader who struggled against the Nazis during WWII.


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Lucie Aubrac was hailed for her courageous actions in the underground network Libération Sud in southern France during World War II. She was awarded the Legion of Honour for her wartime activities, notably the dramatic rescue from the Gestapo of her husband, Raymond Samuel, and other Resistance leaders in 1943.

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