Marie-Madeleine Fourcade: Difference between revisions

 

From 1962, Fourcade chaired the Committee of Resistance Action, as well as the jury of honour of [[Maurice Papon]] in 1981. She remarried, was a mother of five children, a commander of the [[Légion d'honneur]], vice president of the International Union of Resistance and Deportation from 1960 and the National Association of Medal-holders from 1947, and a member of the [[International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism|LICRA]]. Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was represented at the assembly of the European Communities and in 1982 chaired the Defence of Interests in France and Europe. Her last fights were for the end of the Lebanese conflict and the [[Klaus Barbie]] lawsuit in [[Lyon]].

 

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade died at age 80, on 20 July 1989 at the military hospital of [[Val-de-Grâce]]; the government and the few survivors of the resistance group paid an exceptional homage to her on 26 July at the time of her funeral in the [[Les Invalides|Église Saint-Louis des Invalides]], the first woman to have her funeral there, and her burial in the [[Cimetière du Père-Lachaise]] in [[Paris]].