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Also Known As Adolphe-Félix-Sylvestre Éboué
Born December 26, 1884 • Cayenne • French Guiana
Died May 17, 1944 (aged 59) • Cairo • Egypt
Role In World War II
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
French general
Marc Bloch
French historian
Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval
French politician and statesman
Simone Weil.
Simone Weil
French philosopher
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
French politician
Georges Bidault
prime minister of France
Paul Reynaud, 1940.
Paul Reynaud
premier of France
World War II: liberation of Paris
Jacques-Philippe Leclerc
French general
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
French politician
Maxime Weygand
French general
Camille Chautemps.
Camille Chautemps
French politician
Déat, c. 1940
Marcel Déat
French politician
Marie-Pierre Koenig
French military officer
Gamelin, Maurice
Maurice Gamelin
French officer
Pierre Brossolette
French journalist
Brinon, 1940
Fernand de Brinon
French journalist and politician
Jean Moulin
French resistance leader
Christian de Castries.
Christian de Castries
French military officer
Alphonse Juin
French general

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