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Born Madeleine Riffaud in Arvillers, France

100
years ago

23 August 1924,

Madeleine Riffaud was born in Arvillers, France. He was a poet and journalist and fought the Nazis. On the day he turned 20 in 1944, a resistance group led by him stopped the supply of a Nazi train in Paris, where 80 German soldiers were taken hostage by grenade and rockets.

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Madeleine Riffaud aux Buttes-Chaumont, symbole d’une jeunesse en résistance (Paris Lights Up, 23 August 2020).

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