Like many French people, he did not hear General de Gaulle's call. That didn't stop him from responding. Resistance fighter Jean Luneau has just died at the age of 95. His funeral was held privately. Jean Luneau was in Saint-Chartier during the war. He was 15 years old when, at the request of his father, a resistance fighter, he played the role of a liaison agent, in May 1944, for the first battalion of the Indre-Est group of the Boischaut-Sud maquis.
“There would have been no armed resistance if these small-scale clandestine acts of unarmed resistance had not existed”he explained to the schoolchildren and college students to whom he tirelessly testified. In hiding, Jean Luneau carried messages from one group of resistance fighters to another. His family had even been denounced and taken in in a neighboring village.
“What I did, what we did, we did quite naturally”
Regularly, Jean Luneau did not fail to pay vibrant tribute to the women of the Resistance, often forgotten by History. As he recounted, one of his most ingrained memories was about betrayal: “I had a so-called resistance friend but, one day, we discovered that he was part of the militia. This betrayal has served me in my life and it still serves me today. »
-Jean Luneau remained faithful to his youthful commitment. “ What I did, what we did, we did quite naturally”often commented, with modesty, the one who was involved in the National Association of Veterans and Friends of the Resistance. A few years after the war, he took part in a school of young poets led by Elsa Triolet. Trained as a technician, Jean Luneau started out as a worker and ended his career as a factory manager in the food industry.
