Jean-Pierre Rosnay, born 8 April 1926, in Lyon, died of a pulmonary infection on 19 December 2009 at the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris, holding his wife's hand. As a teen-ager, he became a hero of the French Resistance. Arrested for attempting to assassinate Klaus Barbie, he escaped from prison, later joined the French army; and, after the War, settled in Paris. He was one of th
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