Gilbert Renault (August 6 1904 in Vannes, France - July 29 1984 in Guingamp, France), was known during the resistance under the name Colonel Rémy. He is one of the most famous secret agents of occupied France during the Second World war, and was known under various pseudonyms such as Raymond, Jean-Luc, Morin, Watteau, Roulier, Beauce and Rémy. In the old city centre Harbour to cathedral Vannes (Breton: Gwened) is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. ... Guingamp (Gwengamp in Breton) is a town and commune of the Côtes-dArmor département of Brittany, France. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses of Vichy, see Vichy (disambiguation). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Biography

Gilbert Renault was the oldest child of a Catholic family of nine children. His father was a professor of Philosophy and English, and later the inspector general of an insurance company. He went to the Collège St-François-Xavier in Vannes, and after his studies he went to the Rennes faculty. In the old city centre Harbour to cathedral Vannes (Breton: Gwened) is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. ... Some medieval houses, such as these at Champ-Jacquet, can still be found in the center of Rennes. ...

A sympathizer of French Action in the Catholic and Nationalist line, he began his career at the Bank of France in 1924. In 1936, he began cinematic production and finances, and made J'accuse, a new version of the Abel Gance film. It was a resounding failure, but the many connections Renault made during this period were very useful during the resistance. The Action Française is a French Monarchist movement and periodical founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois and whose principal ideologist was Charles Maurras. ... Chauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group. ... One of the Banque de Frances offices in Paris. ... Abel Gance (October 25, 1889 - November 10, 1981) was a world-renowned French film director, producer, writer, actor and editor. ...

With armistice declared of June 18 1940, he refused to accept Marshall Pétain and went to London with one of his brothers, on board a trawler which departed from Lorient. He was one of the first men to adhere to the calls of Genral Charles de Gaulle, and was entrusted by Colonel Passy, then captain and chief of the BCRA, to create an information network in France. Philippe Pétain Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain, was a French soldier and Head of State of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944. ... This article is about The place Lorient in France. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Andre Dewavrin (June 9, 1911 - December 21, 1998) was a French officer who served with Free French Forces intelligence services during World War II. Andre Dewavrin was born in France, the son of a businessman. ... BCRA is an acronym that can represent: Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Bureau Central de Renseignement et dAction Banco Central de la República Argentina (Central Bank of Argentina) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In August of that year he met with Louis de la Bardonnie, and together they created the Notre-Dame Brotherhood, which would become NDT-Castille in 1944. Initially centered on the Atlantic coast, it ended up covering much of occupied France and Belgium. This network was one of the most important in the occupied zone, and its information allowed many military successes, as the attack on Bruneval and Saint-Nazaire.

Convinced that it was necessary to mobilize all forces against the occupation, he put the French Communist Party in touch with the exiled government of Free France in January 1943. Gilbert Renault later admitted it was Pierre Brossolette who got him in touch with political groups and trade unions. This does not cite its references or sources. ... The Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres in French) were French fighters who decided to go on fighting against Germany after the Fall of France and German occupation and to fight against Vichy France in World War II. General Charles de Gaulle was a member of the French Cabinet... Pierre Brossolette (June 25, 1903 - March 22, 1944) was a French socialist, journalist and member of French Resistance. ...

Awarded the Ordre de la Libération on March 13 1942, he became a member of the executive commitee of the RPF (Rally of the French People) from its creation, in charge of trips and demonstrations. He appeared in Carrefour, April 11 1950, in an article entitled 'La justice et l'opprobre' (Justice and the Opprobrium), in which he preached the rehabilitation of Marshall Pétain. A short time afterwards, he adhered to the Association of defense of the memory of Marshall Pétain (ADMP). Repudiated by de Gaulle, he resigned from the RPF. The Ordre de la Libération (Order of the Liberation) is a French Order (decoration) awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during the Second World War. ... The Rally of the French People (French Rassemblement du Peuple Français or RPF) was a French political party, led by Charles de Gaulle. ...

He settled in Portugal in 1954 and returned to France in 1958 to be placed at de Gaulles disposal, who refused.

Renault wrote many works on his activities in the Resistance. Under the name of Rémy (one of his pseudonyms in clandestinity), he published his Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation (adapted for cinema by Claude Chabrol in 1966), which are regarded as important testimonies on the French Resistance.

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Decorations

• Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
• Compagnon de la Libération - décret du 13 mars 1942
• Croix de guerre 1939-1945
• Médaille de la Résistance avec rosette
• Distinguished Service Order (G.-B.)
• Officier de l'Ordre de l'empire britannique (G.B.)
• Officier de la Legion of Merit (É.-U.)
• Officier de la Couronne de Belgique
• Croix de Guerre Belge
• Commandeur du Mérite (Luxembourg)

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Bibliography

• 1946 - 1950 : Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre, Raoul Solar
  • Volume 1, Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre (juin 1940-juin 1942)
  • Volume 2, Le livre du courage et de la peur T.1 (juin 1942-novembre 1943)
  • Volume 3, Le livre du courage et de la peur T.2 (juin 1942-novembre 1943)
  • Volume 4, Comment meut un réseau (novembre 1943-août 1944)
  • Volume 5, Une affaire de trahison
  • Volume 6, Les mains jointes (1944)
  • Volume 7, …Mais le temple est bâti (1944-1945)
• (Reorganized in the posterior editions):
  • Volume 1, Le Refus
  • Volume 2, Les Soldats du silence
  • Volume 3, La Délivrance)
• 1947 : De Gaulle cet inconnu, Raoul Solar
• 1948 : La Nuit des oliviers, Raoul Solar
• 1949 : Le Monument, Fayard
• 1949 : Nous sommes ainsi faits, Chavane
• 1950 : La Justice et l'opprobre, suivi d'une note sur l'intolérance, Editions du Rocher
• 1951 : On m'appelait Rémy, Plon
• 1952 : Réseaux d'ombre, Éditions France-Empire
• 1952 : Le Messie, Editions du Rocher
• 1953  : Profil d'un espion, Plon
• 1953 : Pourpre des martyrs, Fayard
• 1953 : Un architecte de Dieu, le père François Pallu, Fayard
• 1953 : Œuvres libres, Fayard
• 1954 : Leur calvaire, Fayard
• 1954 : Passeurs clandestins, Fayard
• 1954 : L'Opération "Jéricho", Éditions France-Empire
• 1955 : Goa, Rome de l'Orient, Éditions France-Empire
• 1956 : Les Caravelles du Christ, Plon
• 1956 : Les Mains revêtues de lumière, Plon
• 1957 : Fatima, espérance du Monde, Plon
• 1957 : Portugal, Hachette
• 1959 : Dix marches vers l'Espoir, Presses de la Cité
• 1960 : De sang et de chair, Le livre contemporain
• 1960 : Le monocle noir, Hachette
• 1961 : Le Joueur de flute, Presses de la Cité
• 1961 : Catéchisme de la patrie, Éditions France-Empire
• 1961 : J.A. épisodes de la vie d'un agent du S.R. et du contre-espionnage français, Galic (J.A. sont les initiales de Jacques Abtey)
• 1962 : Le Monocle passe et gagne, Hachette
• 1962 : Les Balcons de Tulle, Librairie académique Perrin
• 1963 : La grande prière de Chartres, Dimanche 29 Septembre 1963, Histoire du pèlerinage mational pour la réconciliation dans la justice et la compréhension mutuelle, France-empire
• 1963 : La Dernière carte, Presses de la cité
• 1963 : Comment devenir agent secret, Albin Michel
• 1964 : Compagnons de l'Honneur, France-Empire, Paris
• 1964 - 1976 : La Ligne de démarcation, Librairie académique Perrin (21 volumes)
• 1967 : Réseau Comète, Librairie académique Perrin
• 1968 : Bruneval, Opération coup de croc, France-Empire
• 1968 : Le Déjeuner de la croix de Vernuche, Librairie académique Perrin
• 1968 : La Maison d'Alphonse, Perrin, 1968
• 1969 : Autour de la plage Bonaparte, suite de «la Maison d'Alphonse, Perrin
• 1969 : Le Pianiste, Éditions France-Empire
• 1969 : Et l'Angleterre sera détruite, Éditions France-Empire
• 1971 : Dans l'ombre du maréchal, Presses de la cité
• 1971 : Dix ans avec de Gaulle, 1940 - 1950, Éditions France-Empire, Paris
• 1972 : Avec l'oflag VIII F, Presses de la Cité
• 1973 : Le Schloss ou l'évadé malgré lui, Éditions France-Empire
• 1974 : Avec les Ch'timis : en souvenir du réseau Sylvestre Farmer,ex W.O., France-Empire
• 1974 : Mission Marathon, Librairie académique Perrin
• 1974 : Trente ans après - 6 Juin 1944 / 6 Juin 1974, Librairie Académique Perrin
• 1974 - 1975 : Les Français dans la Résistance, Famot (29 Volumes : En Lorraine, En Provence, En Bretagne, A Paris et dans la Région Parisienne, En Aquitaine, En Auvergne, Limousin, Berry, En Champagne Ardennes, En Languedoc Roussillon, En Alsace et Vosges, Dans le Nord, Dans le Lyonnais, En Normandie, En Dauphiné Savoie, En Corse, T. 2, En Anjou, Touraine, Orléanais, T. 1, En Bourgogne Franche-Comté, T. 1...)
• 1975 : Missions secrètes, Famot
• 1975 : Morhange. Les chasseurs de traites, Flammarion
• 1976 : Le 18×10^{{{1}}} jour : la tragédie de Léopold III, Roi des Belges, France-Empire
• 1976 : Combats dans l'ombre, Idégraf
• 1978 : Rognes et grognes du Général - 1940-1944, Versoix
• 1979 : Histoire du débarquement, Vernoy
• 1979 : Secrets et réussites de l'espionnage français, Famot
• 1979 : Une épopée de la Résistance : en France, en Belgique et au Grand Duché du Luxembourg, Paris
• 1979 : La Résistance a commencé le 3 septembre 1939, Plon
• 1979 - 1983 : Chronique d'une guerre perdue, France-empire
  • Volume 1, L'Entre-Deux-Guerre
  • Volume 2, Le 10 Mai 1940
  • Volume 3, Sedan
  • Volume 4, De la Norvège aux Flandres
  • Volume 5, La Bataille de France
  • Volume 6, Fors l'Honneur
• 1981 : De sang et de chair, Édito-service
• 1981 : Combattre jusqu'au bout, Plon
• 1981 : La résistance en France 1940-1945, Collet
• 1982 : Mes grands hommes et quelques autres, Grasset
• 1984 : La Résistance à vingt ans, Ouest France
• 1984 : La Seconde guerre mondiale : la Résistance, Éd. Christophe Colomb
• 1986 : La Résistance, Hatier

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Sources

(Translated from the French article on Gilbert Renault)

• Grandmaison (de) Henri, Le colonel Rémy, un héros de l'ombre, CMD, 2000
• Perrier Guy, Rémy - L'agent secret n° 1 de la France libre, Perrin, 2001

External Links

• Ordre de la libération - Fiche de Gilbert Renault