French Resistance Hero Raymond Aubrac Dies at 97
Raymond Aubrac (BBC Video)
One of the leading figures of the French resistance against the Nazis, Raymond Aubrac, has died aged 97, his family says.
His daughter said he had died at Val de Grace military hospital in Paris on Tuesday evening.
Raymond Aubrac and his late wife Lucie became important members of Jean Moulin’s underground Resistance movement in 1942.
Aubrac was arrested in June 1943 with Moulin, who died after torture.
In a recent BBC interview, he described how their arrests by the Gestapo at a doctor’s surgery in the suburb of Caluire in Lyon had come as “a shock but not a surprise”.
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