Armée secrète

For the Belgian resistance group, see Armée secrète (Belgium). For the Algerian war dissident organisation, see Organisation de l'armée secrète.
Armée Secrète
Formation 11 November 1942 (1942-11-11)
Extinction February 1, 1944 (1944-02-01)
Type Resistance network
Region
France
Official language
French
Chef de l'Armée secrète
Charles Delestraint
Chef d'état-major de l'Armée secrète
François Morin-Forestier, later Pierre Dejussieu-Pontcarral
Key people
Henri Frenay, Jean Moulin
Affiliations Mouvements unis de la Résistance (MUR)
Regional organization of the French Resistance

The Armée secrète, created in 1943, was an organisation of French resistance fighters during World War II set up by Jean Moulin.[1] It resulted from an amalgamation of three smaller resistance groups:

It was mainly operative in the south of France, for instance in the Rhône-Alpes region (R1) and in the Massif Central (Auvergne ( R6), Limousin (R5), the southeast (R2) and southwest (R4). It corresponds to the organization used by Combat.[2]

In 1944, the Armée secrète made up the French forces of the interior along with the Organisation de résistance de l'armée and the National Front (FTP; Francs-tireurs et partisans français).

by region

Layout of Resistance forces
Region Departement Leader Others
B Region Genl. Faucher
Deux-Sèvres Edmond Proust
M Region Genl. Louis-Alexandre Audibert
M2 Region Genl. Marcel Allard
Finistère Mathieu Donnart
Roger Bourrières
Morbihan Maurice Guillaudot
Paul Chenailler
R1 - Rhône-Alpes Region Capt. Claudius Billon

Capt. Albert Chambonnet
Pierre Lavergne (Maquis)

André Vansteenberghe (intelligence)
Ain André Bob Fornier[3]
Capt. Henri Romans-Petit[4]
Jean Perret
Marcel Gagneux[5]
Haute-Savoie Cmdr. Jean Vallette d'Osia
Henri Romans-Petit
Maurice Anjot (adjoint)
Tom Morel (maquis)
Isère Samuel Job
Albert Reynier[6]
Cmdr. de Reyniès[7]
Cmdr. Albert Séguin de Reyniès (genl. staff)
Louis Nal[8]
Jura Valentin Abeille
Loire Lt. Gaëtan Vidiani
Haute-Loire Capt. Alfred Salvatelli
Saône-et-Loire Georges de la Ferté-Sénectère
R2 - Sud-Est Region Henri Masi Charles Gonard (volunteer corps)
Jean Garcin (volunteer corps)
Bouches-du-Rhône André Aune
R3 - Sud Region
Gard Albert Thomas
Hérault Georges Flandre
Pyrénées-Orientales Louis Torcatis
Dominique Cayrol
R4 - Sud-Ouest Region Delmas[9]
Maurice Rousselier
Ariège Joseph-Paul Rambaud
Haute-Garonne Cmdr. Rigal[10]
Tarn Robert Rossi
R5 - Limousin Region
Corrèze Martial Brigouleix Marius Guedin (maquis)
Louis Lemoigne (civilian)
Creuse Marcel Fleisser (maquis)
Albert Fossey-François (maquis)
Dordogne Raymond Berggren[9]
Mojzesz Goldman[11]
Maurice Loupias (Bergeret, volunteer corps)[9]
Haute-Vienne Yves Tavet[9]
Indre Capt. René Antoine (Carpy)
Paul Mirguet
R6 - Auvergne Region Jean Chappat[12]

References

  1. Caballero Jurado, Carlos (1985). Resistance warfare 1940-1945. Osprey Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 0-85045-638-X. Retrieved 2008-07-17.
  2. (Dewavrin 2000, p. 373).
  3. "Maquis de l'Ain et du Haut-Jura" [Maquis of the Ain and Haut-Jura] (in French). Retrieved 2015-07-07.
  4. "La Résistance armée" [Armed Resistance] (in French). Mémoire de la Déportation dans l'Ain (1939-1945). Retrieved 2014-02-22..
  5. "Structuration de l'Armée Secrète et unification au sein des Mouvements Unis de la Résistance" [Organization of the Armée Secrète and Consolidation Within the United Resistance Movement] (PDF). Académie de Lyon (pdf) (in French). Retrieved 2011-07-01..
  6. (Muller 2003, p. 26).
  7. (Muller 2003, p. 151).
  8. (Muller 2003, p. 152).
  9. 1 2 3 4 (Boyer & Binot 2007)
  10. Maruéjol, René; Vielzeuf, Aymé (1982). Le maquis Bir-Hakeim [The Bir-Hakeim Maquis] (in French). éditions Le Camariguo..
  11. Le Bail, Sylvain (2001). Mojzesz Goldman dit "Mireille": premier chef départemental du maquis A.S., Dordogne, 1943 [Moises "Mireille" Goldman: First Departmental Director of the Maquis] (in French). Chêne Vert..
  12. Adler, Laure (2011-01-19). Françoise [Françoise] (in French). Grasset..


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