Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie

1900–1969 (age 69)

Biography

Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie (1900-1969) combined his gifts as a writer and journalist with resolute leadership in the Resistance, founding bold publications and keeping alive the ideals of liberty during dark days.

He later returned to civic life with the same clarity of purpose, and his pen continued to fight for justice even as he was laid to rest in the cimetière d'Arronville.

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