Cimetière de Montmartre (continued): #22: Jacques Decour

'Daniel DECOURDEMANCHE

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Jacques DECOUR

(1910 – 1942)

professeur agrégé d'allemand,

écrivain. Résistant, intellectuel communiste,

fusillé comme hotage par les nazis, au Mont-Valérien

le 30 mai 1942.'

Jacques Decour was a French writer and member of the Resistance. He was responsible for two papers, L'université libre (1940) and La Pensée libre (1941), which was to be the most important publication in occupied France. He was arrested in March 1942 and executed by the Germans three and a half months later.