| LC control no. | n 81040681 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Michelet, Edmond, 1899-1970 |
| Birth date | 18991008 |
| Death date | 19701009 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Place of death | Brive-la-Gaillarde (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians |
| Found in | His Sur la fidélité en politique ... 1949. Edmond Michelet, in Chronoscope, 1954: title frame (the Honorable Edmond Michelet, member of the French Senate and former Minister of War) Wikipedia, October 18, 2013 (Edmond Michelet; French politician; born October 8, 1899 in Paris; died October 9, 1970 in Brive; on June 17, 1940 he distributed tracts calling to continue the war in all Brive-la-Gaillarde's mailboxes; it is considered to be the first act of resistance of World War II in France, one day before Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of June 18th; he helped many victims of the Nazis in occupied France, including Catholic philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand; in 1943 he was arrested and incarcerated at the Dachau concentration camp where he assisted other prisoners during a typhus epidemic and was infected himself; when Dachau was liberated he was still aiding the sick and was the last to leave; while a prisoner, he was helped by abbé Franz Stock; he was made minister of the Army by Charles de Gaulle in 1946; he served as Minister of Justice from 1959 to 1961; Michelet was the main collaborator of Abraham Vereide, the leader of the Family fundamentalist organization, based in the United States) |
| Associated language | fre eng |
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