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His network

• In 1941, he constitute the net AGIR, rattached to the S.I.S. and composed of one hundred of agents. He used his cover of manager of a compagny producing gas generator.

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The ramps of launching of V1

• In the summer 1943, one of his agents, an ingeneer of railways of Rouen, signaled that several building-yard of an unusual complexity had appeared in Haute-Normandie. Hollard went to Rouen, in the deguise of parson, and persuaded a local responsible to communicate to him the list of building-yard. They were buildings of ramps of launching of rockets V1.

• He communicate the information to the British (MI6) by the Embassy of Great-Britain in Berne, going through himself the swiss border 98 times (49 travels).

• In the end of month of december 1943, the 103 sites of launching of V1 in France, that formed an arch of circle going from the Basse-Normandie to Pas-de-Calais, were systematically bombed by the RAF.

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The arrest

• In 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Paris, tortured, imprisoned in Fresnes Prison and sentenced to death.
• He was deported to the concentration camp of Neuengamme. He was saved from the sinking of SS Cap Arcona by the Count Folke Bernadotte who, informed by the British Intelligence, had saved the lifes of some french-speaker deportees aboard this ship.

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Distinctions

• Commandeur de l'ordre de la Légion d'Honneur
• Croix de Guerre 1914-1918
• Croix de Guerre 1939-1945
• Rosette de la Résistance
• Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
• On April 27, 2004, a train Eurostar between Paris and London was baptized with his name.

Chiang Kai-sheks Légion dhonneur. ... The french Médaille de la Résistance (Resistance Medal) was awarded by General Charles de Gaulle to recognise the remarkable acts of faith and of courage that, in France, in the empire and abroad, have contributed to the resistance of the French people against the enemy and against its... DSO medal The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about high-speed trains between London and Brussels / Paris. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Family

• Descendant of Jean Monod (1765-1836) parson Jean Monod
• His father, Auguste Hollard, professor of nuclear physic of the School of Physic and Chimie of Paris and Sorbonne.
• His mother Pauline Monod
• Cousin of Théodore Monod (1902-2000) naturalist, explorer, erudite and french humanist.
• Cousin of Jacques Monod, biologist (1910-1976), Nobel Prize 1965
• His son Florian Hollard, chief of orchestra. Longtime director of symphonic orchestra of Tours and master of chapel of the Oratory of Louvre in Paris.

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External link

• Michel Hollard, heros of the Resistance

Bibliograghy

Michel Hollard, le Français qui a sauvé Londres, by Florian Hollard, Le cherche midi.