A path of memory in Sarlat, 80 years after the 1945 victory

TOut of the city of Sarlat (Dordogne) paved this Thursday, May 8 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory of May 8, 1945. Beyond the Place de la Petite Rigaudie decorated with tricolor flags, the town hall innovated by offering to travel a path of memory. He started Place de la Liberation, renamed in 1945 to erase the name of Philippe Pétain, in front of the La Boétie college, which had the day after the landing the military center of the Resistance.

Tributes

An establishment that paid a heavy price: four students – Françoise FROLICH, his brother Jean, Jeanine Bloch and Claude Levy – were deported on April 1, 1944.

Then the procession marked eight steps for as many tributes paid to resistant who gave their names to streets, some of which paid the fight against the Nazi occupier. In order: Jean and Guillaume Détraves, Émile Séroux, Lucien Badaroux alias Alberte, Henriette Amable alias Luron, Henri Arlet, Louis Bonnel, André Liarsou and Hélène Rochette. Under the names of the streets, the city had commemorative plates listed their feats of arms. Students from the Joséphine-Baker high school recalled the memory of these freedom fighters.

To be complete, let’s add Marcel Crémon, Marc Busson, Édouard Kauffmann alias Criquet, Lucien Dubois alias Victor, Xavier Vial alias Villars or Doctor Nessmann.

Louis Bonnel’s grandson wants the Legion of Honor for his grandfather

Grandson of Louis Bonnel (1902-1943), the resistant bookseller arrested on denunciation on February 12, 1943 and died at the Nazi camp in Natzweiler-Struthof on September 25, 1943, Bruno Dacier-Falque hoped that his grandfather receive the Legion of honor posthumously. He publicized his fight in Julien Courbet’s “It can happen to you, on RLT, on May 8. The delay is one year to distinguish people killed or injured in the accomplishment of their duty. Only the President of the Republic can derogate from this rule. A text was sent to Brigitte Macron by a journalist.