As a symbol, it died out on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The heroine of the Resistance Cécile Rol-Tanguy died Friday at the age of 101, her family said in a statement sent to AFP.
She died at midday "at her home in Monteaux (Loir-et-Cher)", said the press release. "With it disappears one of the last figures of the French interior resistance and more precisely of the Liberation of Paris in August 1944", continues the text.
“Emblematic of the place of women in the fight against Vichy and the Nazi occupier”
She was the widow of Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, one of the main actors in the Liberation of Paris, who died in 2002. Cécile Rol-Tanguy was born on April 10, 1919, the only daughter of an electrician, communist and resistant activist who died deported to Auschwitz in 1943, and of an equally resistant housewife. In 1939, just before the start of the war, she married Henri Tanguy, met at the CGT Metals union in Paris where she was employed. Emblematic couple of the Resistance, they had four children.
After four years in hiding, on August 18, 1944 it was she who typed the order for the Parisian insurrection dictated by her husband who became the military leader of the French Interior Forces in Ile-de-France and which would succeed eight days later at the Liberation of the capital.
"Bearer of the highest distinctions of the Republic (Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Grand Cross in the National Order of Merit, Medal of the Resistance, Cross of the Volunteer Resistance Fighter), she was emblematic of the place of women in the fight against Vichy and the Nazi occupier, "greeted his family.
"Until his last breath, Cécile Rol-Tanguy will demonstrate his loyalty to the generous utopia of communism, to his youthful commitments to social justice and the emancipation of women," added the press release.
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