People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Marceau Pivert Marceau Pivert
The Socialist left's tribune who wrote 'Everything is possible', the Popular Front's left frontier
Political and party leadership · French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO)
1895–1958
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Jacques Duclos Jacques Duclos
The PCF's number two for 37 years: a Stalinist who moved between parliament and the underground
Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF)
1896–1975
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Charles Tillon Charles Tillon
A communist who carried working-class militancy into armed resistance
Social movements and organizing · Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF)
1897–1993
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Jacques Doriot Jacques Doriot
The Saint-Denis Communist who demanded the popular front first and ended a fascist
Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF)
1898–1945
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Henri Navarre Henri Navarre
Last commander of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps, who chose to fortify Điện Biên Phủ and met defeat there in 1954
Military command · France state institutions
1898–1983
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Jean Pierre Moulin Jean Moulin
The republican who bound a divided Resistance together
Social movements and organizing
1899–1943
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Georges Bidault Georges Bidault
From Resistance chief to architect of the Marshall Plan response, the foreign minister who told Molotov that Soviet actions divided Europe
Government and administration · France state institutions
1899–1983
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Raoul Salan Raoul Salan
French commander in the First Indochina War and leader of the OAS.
Military command · France state institutions
1899–1984
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Léo Lagrange Léo Lagrange
The undersecretary for leisure and sport who designed the workers' first holidays
Government and administration · France state institutions
1900–1940
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Maurice Thorez Maurice Thorez
A miner's son who built the Popular Front and led the French Communist Party for 34 years
Political and party leadership · French Communist Party (PCF)
1900–1964
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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Free French armoured commander
Military command · France state institutions
1902–1947
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Vincent Henri Badie Vincent Badie
A Radical Socialist who defended the Republic
Government and administration · France state institutions
1902–1989
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Christian de Castries Christian de Castries
French general who commanded the Điện Biên Phủ fortress in 1954 and was captured when it fell
Military command · France state institutions
1902–1991
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Henri Frenay Henri Frenay
A Resistance organizer who moved from Vichy sympathies to opposition
Social movements and organizing
1905–1988
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Jean Sainteny Jean Sainteny
French resistance veteran and official who concluded the 6 March 1946 preliminary agreement with Ho Chi Minh
Diplomacy and international organization · France state institutions
1907–1978
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Pierre Mendès France Pierre Mendès France
French prime minister who promised a ceasefire within four months after Điện Biên Phủ and concluded the 1954 Geneva Accords
Government and administration · France state institutions
1907–1982
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Alexander Ivanovich Langfang Александр Иванович Лангфанг
An interrogator convicted of falsifying cases and torturing prisoners
Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union
1907–1990
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Henri Rol-Tanguy Henri Rol-Tanguy
Communist Resistance leader who directed the Paris uprising
Military command · France state institutions
1908–2002
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René Bousquet René Bousquet
Vichy police chief who negotiated with the occupier
Security, intelligence and policing · France state institutions
1909–1993
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Charles Bettelheim Charles Bettelheim
French Marxist economist who theorized the USSR as state capitalism and shaped Third World development economics
Scholarship and theory · French Communist Party (PCF)
1913–2006
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Louis Pierre Althusser Louis Althusser
The thinker who found a new continent in Marx: founder of structural Marxism
Scholarship and theory · French Communist Party (PCF)
1918–1990
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Pierre Félix Georges Pierre Georges
A communist pioneer of armed resistance to the Occupation
Military command · Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF)
1919–1944
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Guy Môquet Guy Môquet
A young Communist activist executed under occupation
Social movements and organizing
1924–1941
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Pierre Broué Pierre Broué
A committed historian of revolutionary movements
Scholarship and theory
1926–2005
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Henry Rousso Henry Rousso
A historian who reshaped the history of Vichy and wartime memory
Scholarship and theory
1954–