French Resistance hero Lucie Aubrac dies

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Wartime French Resistance heroine, Lucie Aubrac, died Wednesday in a Paris hospital at the age of 94, her family said.
Aubrac became renowned for her role in helping her husband Raymond Aubrac, a leader of the anti-Nazi resistance, escape from German detention in June 1943.

Born Lucie Bertrand on June 29, 1912 to a Burgundy winemaking family, Aubrac became a history and geography teacher. After the Nazis occupied France, she helped set up one of the first underground networks in southern France which had been formed by her husband.

He was detained alongside resistance legend Jean Moulin, who was killed by the Nazis. Aubrac and other resistance fighters freed Raymond Aubrac and 13 other resistance members from a Lyon prison.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070314/en_afp/franceaubracwwii_070314233027

[PhilipShore]

1. Lucie Aubrac (1997)

[theHandpuppet]

2. How soon we forget...

Here's to you, Lucie -- and the thousands like you -- for putting your life on the line to resist the monster of tyranny and injustice.

[conscious evolution]

3. This member of an Underground salutes the passing

of a member of 'the' underground.
Farewell Lucie and RIP.

I grew up looking at the French Resistance as heroes who stood up to fascism no matter the cost.I never would have dreamed I would be part of an underground,much less one in this country.I just hope we never have to result to their methods and sacrifices they made to be free.

[Mist]

4. Those who were in the French resistance really walked the walk. True patriots and

heroes. I salute their bravery. Go to a well-earned rest, Lucie.

[HamdenRice]

5. The film about her is AWSOME

The French film "Lucie Aubrac" is a fantastic movie! If she is anything like the character is this docudrama, she was an amazing, amazing woman.

It is an action-adventure, spy thriller type movie that does not depend on special effects, car chases or "blowing shit up" (as they say in Hollywood), but is mezmerizing. Taut, tense, perfectly plotted and brilliantly acted, complex and nuanced.

Why can't Americans make movies like that? (Hint: Because they are obsessed with "blowing shit up.")