Lyon honored Monday a resistance member born in the city, France Péjot, by giving her name to one of the passages passing under the “vaults” of Perrache (2nd arrondissement), after its complete renovation.
The ceremony took place in the presence of the heroine's son, the composer Jean-Michel Jarre, accompanied by his daughter Emilie.
France Péjot, known as “Francette”, died in 2010 at the age of 95, joined the Franc-Tireur resistance movement in 1942 in her hometown, with her sister.
At the start of the Second World War, she ran a female lingerie store called "La lingerie Pratique", a store in which the two women hid documents but also other resistance fighters.
His apartment on the Place des Jacobins also serves as a base for the network.
Escaped from Ravensbrück, she joined Paris hidden on the roof of a train
Arrested in October 1942, she was imprisoned for five months in the jails of Saint-Joseph prison before being released.
Slightly escaping the militia after her liberation, she then went to Paris where she was arrested in June 1944.
Deported by the last convoy to Ravensbrück in August, she managed to escape in April 1945 and return to Paris by traveling on the roof of a wagon.
In 1948, she gave birth to Jean-Michel Jarre, the fruit of his union with the film music composer Maurice Jarre.
The passage which now bears his name allows pedestrians and cyclists to pass under the barrier formed by the A7 motorway, the multimodal exchange center and the tracks of the Perrache station, which cuts the city center of the new district of the Confluence.
Part of this 300-meter-long path is now done in the open air.
The work will have cost 18.5 million euros, half of which for the demolition of existing structures.
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