Lucie Aubrac was a French resistance leader during WWII who helped her husband escape from Gestapo imprisonment. She convinced German officers to allow her and her husband to marry in prison, and then partisans attacked during the prisoner transfer and freed him. After the war, Lucie became the first woman to sit on a French parliamentary assembly and continued advocating for resistance efforts. She wrote two books about her experiences in the resistance and combating Nazi occupation of France.

1. Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Aubrac was a French resistance leader who struggled against the Nazis during WWII.
Biography:
● born: France on 1912
● she was Catholic
● She had a scholarship to study in US but because of the nazi activities in Germany,
she stayed and joined the French Community Party against Fascism
● There she met her husband who was a jew
● She began teaching history and she and her husband joined the resistance
● They met Emmanuel D’Astier and the three formed the left­wing Liberátion­sud
Resistance group
● Her husband was called Raymond
● They had many fake names but eventually they adopted Aubrac as their surname
● Over the next four years, Lucie and Raymond Aubrac worked for the Resistance,
publishing propaganda and helping fellow partisans escape arrest
● They had a child called Jean ­ Pierre
● By the end of 1942 German army occupied all of France
● In March 1943 her husband was arrested but later released after convincing German
officials he was nothing more than a small­time black­marketer he was arrested
again 2 months later and tortured for information
● Lucie Aubrac was pregnant with her second child and worried that she would never
see her husband again so she went to the Gestapo headquarter and claimed she
was unmarried and that Raymond was the father.Citing a French law that allowed
condemned prisoners to wed, she successfully convinced German officers to allow
her to “marry” Raymond. After the ceremony, as Raymond was being transferred
back to prison, armed partisans attacked and freed him and 15 others prisoners
● In 1944 they went to London
● There Lucie became the first woman ever to sit on a French parliamentary assembly
● When war ended they went back to France and Lucie continue to teach history
● In 1966 she won the award of the Legion of Honor by the French government
● The Gestapo chief, Barbie, that had arrested Raymond accused him of being an
informant and responsible for the arrest of Jean Moulin
● This inspired Lucie to write her memories in a book titled “Outwitting the Gestapo”
● A year later, the Aubracs won a suit against a journalist who had published a book
suggesting that Raymond had betrayed Moulin
● In 1997 they filmed a movie about her life
● In 2000 Lucie published another book titled The Resistance Explained to My
Grandchildren
● Lucie died in 2007.