Aimé Lepercq
Politician, Military Person
1889 – 1944
Who was Aimé Lepercq?
Aimé Marie Antoine Lepercq was a French soldier, industrialist and political figure.
Born in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, Rhône, as the eldest of nine children, he graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1911, and then the École des Mines.
Lepercq fought in World War I, in which he was wounded three times and decorated for valor five times, becoming Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1915 and receiving the British Armed Forces Military Cross. After the war, he worked as an administrator of industrial properties for the Škoda company in Czechoslovakia.
On the outbreak of World War II, Lepercq fought in the artillery during the battle of France, and continued to fight despite orders to no longer do so, until the actual Compiègne armistice of June, 1940. After a brief internment by the Germans, he returned to civil life as an industrial administrator, but was fired in 1943 for speaking out against the collaborationist administration and the Vichy regime, regarding the Service du travail obligatoire and deportations of Frenchmen to German labor camps.
Consequently, he became an active member of the French Resistance, commanding the Forces françaises de l’intérieur in Île-de-France. Arrested again in 1944, he was set free due to the German authorities' failure to investigate, he took part in the Liberation of Paris, leading the FFI's attack on the Hôtel de Ville. For his role in the Resistance actions, he was made a Compagnon de la Libération; he was twice recipient of the Croix de guerre, for his valor in both World Wars.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1889
- Also known as
- Aime Lepercq
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Lived in
- Rhône-Alpes
- Died
- Nov 9, 1944
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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