Collector 4 stamps - Marc Bloch - Green letter

Marc Bloch A fantastic historian and heroic resistance fighter, Marc Bloch defended to the death a demanding conception of republican commitment. Descended from an Alsatian Jewish family that opted for France in 1870, Marc Bloch was born in Lyon in 1886. He grew up with the Republic at heart. A brilliant student, he set his sights on the same profession as his father: historian. His young career as a high school teacher was brutally interrupted in 1914 by the Great War. A talented officer, he was deeply affected by the experience of the trenches. This experience influenced his work in the years that followed. The journal he founded with Lucien Febvre, Les Annales, went on to become a benchmark journal, opening up history to the other social sciences and helping the French historical school to shine throughout the world. A professor at Strasbourg and then at the Sorbonne, his academic career was once again halted by the outbreak of world war in 1939. A father of six and suffering from polyarthrosis, Marc Bloch asked to be mobilized. At the time, he was "France's oldest captain". The humiliation of the debacle prompted him to write an important testimony, L'Étrange Défaite (The Strange Defeat). Eager not to remain passive in the face of his country's situation, Marc Bloch joined the Resistance in 1942 in Montpellier. He went underground in 1943, becoming one of the leaders of the Resistance in the Lyon region within the Franc-Tireur network. A key figure in the Mouvements unis de la Résistance (M.U.R.), he was arrested in Lyon in March 1944 and tortured by the Gestapo. He was executed without trial along with some twenty other comrades on June 16, 1944. Matis Bloch

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