1. Lucie Aubrac was active on a number of operations, including prison breakouts.
14 Facts About Lucie Aubrac
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Lucie Aubrac sat in the Provisional Consultative Assembly in Paris from 1944 to 1945.
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Lucie Aubrac's life was depicted in the 1997 film Lucie Aubrac by Claude Berri.
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In 1940, Lucie Aubrac was amongst the first to join the French Resistance.
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Lucie Aubrac went to see Klaus Barbie, the notorious Gestapo chief in Vichy France and claimed to be Raymond's fiancee, saying he was named "Ermelin" and had been caught in a raid while innocently visiting a doctor.
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Lucie Aubrac was told Raymond was to be executed for being a member of the Resistance, but she was able to get permission to marry him first, supposedly to save her honor and legitimize the child with which she really was pregnant.
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When Raymond was being brought back to prison after "wedding", he and fifteen other prisoners were rescued by a commando unit led by Lucie Aubrac, who attacked the vehicle he was in, killing the six guards.
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In 1944, Charles de Gaulle established a consultative assembly, which Lucie Aubrac joined as a resistance representative, making her the first woman to sit on a French parliamentary assembly.
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In 1984, Lucie Aubrac published a semi-fictional version of her wartime diaries, the English translation of which is known as Outwitting the Gestapo.
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Lucie Aubrac was inspired to publish her own writing on the war by Klaus Barbie's claim that her husband Raymond had become an informer and betrayed Jean Moulin after his arrest.
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Lucie Aubrac hated the film, which she called "misery loving", complaining it dwelled on all that was ugly in France.
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In 1996, Lucie Aubrac was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government for her heroism during World War II.
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Serge Klarsfeld, the president of the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France, said to BFM-TV that Raymond and Lucie Aubrac "were a legendary couple" and "exceptional people".
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Lucie Aubrac's ashes are beside Raymond's in the family tomb in the cemetery in the Burgundian village of Salornay-sur-Guye.