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PERSONALIA

Name:	Saint Marc, de, Hélie Denoix
Date of birth:	February 11th, 1922
Nationality:	French

BIOGRAPHY:
Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc was a French resistance fighter. At the age og 19 he entered the resistance. in 1943 he was arrested an imprisoned in Buchenwald.

After the Second World War he joined the French Foreign Legion and fought in Vietnam and Algeria. In April 1961 he supported the "General's Putsch" against Charles de Gaulle who had accepted the Algerian independence. For this he was convicted to 10 year's imprisonment but was released in 1966.


	CROIX DE GUERRE (1939-1945)


	MÉDAILLE DE LA RÉSISTANCE FRANÇAISE


	CROIX DU COMBATTANT VOLONTAIRE RÉSISTANCE


	MÉDAILLE COMMEMORATIVE DE LA GUERRE 1939-1945


	MÉDAILLE DE LA DÉPORTATION ET DE L’INTERNEMENT POUR FAITS DE RÉSISTANCE

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Information source(s):	- Les Champs de braises. Mémoires of Laurent Beccaria, édition Perrin, 1995, ISBN 2262011184 - Site officiel d' Hélie de Saint Marc