Cahors. The life of resistance fighter François Jubin in a book

The monthly conference, free and open to all, of the SEL (Société des Etudes du Lot) will take place this Thursday, November 7 at 6:15 p.m., at the Espace Clément Marot in Cahors, 3rd floor, room 306. It will focus on François Jubin.

A resistance fighter but also a country doctor

Son of Maurice Jubin, Navy doctor, François Jubin was born in the Cahors maternity ward on June 21, 1916. He spent the first months of his life with his paternal grandmother, 14 rue Victor-Hugo. Far from Cahors following his father's assignments, he returned to the Lot in 1934. He in turn undertook medical studies and joined the Bordeaux Naval Health School in 1938. In April 1940, he was assigned at the Boulogne-sur-Mer naval air base where he participated in the battles intended to delay the advance of the German armored vehicles while the British expeditionary force reached the English coast. From 1940 to his death on June 28, 1944, François Jubin was a decorated fighter, an opponent of the Vichy regime, an active resistance fighter, but also a field doctor in Lauzès (Lot). It was in uniform, weapons in hand, that he fell under the bullets of German soldiers on June 28, 1944, in Gourdon. He was 28 years old, with a wife and two little daughters. He was decorated, cited, honored, declared “dead for France”, and yet in this year of “Memory”, who in Cahors remembers François Jubin? His daughter, that's quite normal.

After 10 years of research and investigations, she chose to write a book. The book is the safest means of transmission. It is deposited at the BNF (National Library of France) and accessible to all, we will not demolish it like the statue of a character who is no longer “politically correct”. Researchers and history lovers will be able to use it and perhaps it will be of interest to teachers and 3rd grade students who are studying the Second World War. You have to go to Lauzès to meet people who know who Doctor Jubin is. At his name, faces light up and you are pointed in the direction of the Marpa which bears his name. At the end of her conference, Françoise Jubin will dedicate her book “My father, François Jubin, doctor of the Navy” published by Edicausse.