This Tuesday, June 18, from 11 a.m., many outsiders and personalities, also in the presence of 45 students from the Saint-Théodard school and college and the prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne Vincent Roberti, celebrated the 84th anniversary of the call for resistance launched in 1940 by General de Gaulle. The ceremony took place in front of the Cours Foucault stele, with first a reminder of the history of the war memorial by Mr. Robert Badinier, regional delegate of the association memory of hope of the resistance, then Eugénie Berrocq performed the Song of the partisans. Once again Robert Badinier read the famous appeal of June 18, followed by the reading of the preface to the liberation memorial by Mr. Tournou. Once again Eugénie Berrocq performed this time the song of the cross of Lorraine and finally the song of 2nd DB. In his turn, Mr. Claude Vigouroux, president of the association Presence and Tomorrow of Gaullism, made a speech and to conclude, the prefect Vincent Roberti read the message from the Secretary of State in charge of veterans and memory to the Minister of the Armed Forces. . This morning ended with the bell ringing for the dead, a minute of silence and the singing of the Marseillaise, but before that with the laying of wreaths by Mr. Claude Vigouroux, president of the Presence and Tomorrow of Gaullism association, Mr. Francis Causse, president of the Gaulist circle. Jean-Moulin, Lieutenant-Colonel Mr. Christophe Masse deputy departmental military delegate, Patrice Garrigues regional advisor, José Gonzalez vice-president of the departmental council, and Brigitte Barèges mayor of Montauban.
