Victor Dillard
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Victor Dillard (1897–1945) was a French Jesuit, a hero of the French Resistance during World War II, He attempted to organize the French compulsory workers deported to Germany, but was arrested and died in Dachau.
Victor Dillard came from a bourgeois family from Blois , among a family of ten children (seven sons), including Robert (1889-1968, polytechnician , student at the naval school, future rear admiral ), Pierre ( 1891-1915 , died for France , studied at the naval school like his brother. Another of his brothers, Étienne Dillard, is the father of the singer Françoise Hardy.
Works
- Victor Dillard, Lettres du prisonnier inconnu, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Le monde ouvrier, 1941
- Victor Dillard, Suprêmes témoignages, Paris, Spes, coll. « Action populaire », 1945
Further reading
- Robert Dillard, La vie et la mort du R.P. Dillard, Les œuvres françaises, 1947
- Philippe Verrier (postface Charles Molette), Le P. Victor Dillard, jésuite, mort à Dachau en 1945, "L'un des cinquante", Magny-les-Hameaux, Socéval Éditions/Artège, juillet 2005
- Jean-Marie Mayer/Yves-Marie Hilaire: Dictionnaire du Monde religieux dans la France Contemporaine. Paris 1985, p. 95
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