Henri Frenay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henri Frenay

French military officer, politician and French resistance member

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1905

Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-RhĂ´ne-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1988

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Henri Frenay

  • Henri Frenay Sandoval (1905–1988) was a French military officer and French Resistance member. He was born in Lyon, France, on 11 November 1905, into a Catholic family with a military tradition.
  • He studied the Germanic languages at the University of Strasbourg.
  • Afterwards, he became a soldier like his father and studied in Saint Cyr and the École SupĂ©rieure de Guerre and reached the rank of captain in 1934.
  • At the outbreak of World War II, he rejoined the French army.
  • German forces captured him in Vosges.
  • He arrived in Marseille after escaping from a POW camp in Alsace on 27 June 1940.At first Frenay supported the Vichy Regime but was soon disillusioned by the Nazi tendency of the PĂ©tain regime, and he subsequently formed the French Resistance group Mouvement de LibĂ©ration Nationale in 1940.
  • He became an editor of underground newspapers such as VĂ©ritĂ©s (Truths) and had a hand in the formation of the Combat group in November 1941.
  • In 1943, his group participated in the forming of the Conseil National de la RĂ©sistance of Jean Moulin, but Frenay refused a seat since he disagreed over the admission of political parties to the Conseil. When the Gestapo captured Moulin, Frenay fled to Algiers.
  • In November 1943, he met Charles de Gaulle, who appointed him as a minister of prisoners, refugees and deportees. After the war, Frenay served in de Gaulle's first provisional government.
  • He retired from the political life and became a businessman.
  • He published his autobiography, The Night Will End: Memoirs of a Revolutionary in 1976 and criticised Moulin and de Daulle as reckless. Frenay died at Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, on 8 August 1988.

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