36 Facts About Arthur Dallidet

Arthur Dallidet was a French metal worker, Communist and trade union leader in the Renault factories, who became a leader of the French Resistance during World War II.

Arthur Dallidet joined the French Communist Party and was noticed by the leaders, who sent him for education to Moscow and then assigned him to assist the Cadre Commission, which checked the loyalty of party members.

Arthur Dallidet went underground and played a leading role in organizing the clandestine structure of the party, which at this stage did not actively oppose the Germans in the "imperialist" war.

Arthur Dallidet was placed in charge of security for the armed Resistance, the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans.

Arthur Dallidet was arrested in February 1942, and despite severe beatings gave nothing away.

Arthur Dallidet was born on 12 October 1906 in Nantes, Loire-Inferieure, son of a fitter who had worked for sixteen years at the Chantiers de la Loire shipyard in Nantes.

Arthur Dallidet's headmaster found him a place as an apprentice designer with a company in Nantes, but he did not like office life and left in July 1921.

Arthur Dallidet became an apprentice boilermaker at the Chantiers de la Loire, staying there until July 1924.

Arthur Dallidet worked at the Batignolles factory in Nantes from 1924 to 1926.

Arthur Dallidet joined a cycling club, and was wounded in the leg and the face in a cycling accident.

Arthur Dallidet moved to Paris in April 1928 and was hired by the Renault factory at Boulogne-Billancourt the next day, Arthur Dallidet was fired after less than two months after a fight.

Arthur Dallidet worked for the next two years in a series of jobs with Citroen, Gallois in Meudon, Farman and again with Renault.

Arthur Dallidet died on 12 December 1929 five days after giving birth to a daughter, who was looked after by her sister in Nantes.

Arthur Dallidet had to work hard to pay maintenance for his child.

Arthur Dallidet later married again in 1933, to Enta Klugaite a Lithuanian communist and shorthand typist, it appears to have been a marriage of convenience but they live together some years.

In July 1930 Arthur Dallidet joined the Sulzer company in Saint-Denis.

Arthur Dallidet found work with other companies, using a false name.

Arthur Dallidet signed up as unemployed, ate at soup kitchens, and led the Communists in Renault from outside as a secretary of the local party section.

Arthur Dallidet was placed in charge of the union paper l'Ile Seguin L'Ile du Diable, where he published a cartoon of Louis Renault that was a great success.

Arthur Dallidet was a member of the Communist party's Regional Office in Paris West and of the council of the Unitary Federation of metalworkers.

The party leadership assigned Arthur Dallidet to take courses at the Leninist School in Moscow, leaving in September 1935.

Arthur Dallidet returned to France in October 1936 and was given a permanent position in the PCF Cadre Commission as assistant to Maurice Treand.

Arthur Dallidet was the second functionary to be assigned to the commission.

Arthur Dallidet went underground after the dissolution of the PCF on 26 September 1939, and worked with Benoit Frachon to establish the first clandestine structures, acting as secretary of the clandestine organization.

In November 1939 Pierre Georges put Paul Maertens in touch with Arthur Dallidet, who gave Maertens national responsibility for production and distribution of materiel.

Arthur Dallidet based himself in Toulouse and bicycled around the area to renew his contacts.

Frachon and Arthur Dallidet did not return to Paris until around 15 August 1940.

Charles Tillon was called to the capital to join the clandestine PCF secretariat, where Arthur Dallidet was among his interviewers.

Arthur Dallidet was suspected to have been indiscreet due to trusting too much in the Soviet-German pact.

Arthur Dallidet introduced Ouzoulias to Eugene Henaff, who was responsible for the armed struggle under the direction of Tillon.

Arthur Dallidet was recognized talking to a woman in a cafe beside the Reuilly metro station on the evening on 28 February 1942.

Arthur Dallidet was arrested, taken to La Sante Prison, chained, handcuffed and severely beaten.

Arthur Dallidet did not reveal any information, but had been carrying a long list of names and addresses.

Arthur Dallidet suffered weeks of extreme torture, but continued to say nothing.

Arthur Dallidet's face became so badly bruised and swollen he could not open his eyes, and one arm was paralyzed.

Arthur Dallidet was executed by a German firing squad on 30 May 1942 at Fort Mont-Valerien, Paris, along with Felix Cadras, Louis Salomon and Jacques Decour.