Franc-Tireur was a French Resistance

French Resistance

The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...

 movement founded at Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

 in November 1940 under the name "France Liberté". It was renamed "Franc-Tireur" in December 1941 on the proposal of Jean-Jacques Soudeille. It was headed by Jean-Pierre Lévy

Jean-Pierre Levy

Jean-Pierre Levy is a French lawyer, author and diplomat. He was the director of the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea in 1985.-Biography:...

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Franc-Tireur was also the name of the movement's clandestine newspaper, which published 37 issues from December 1941 to August 1944.

Under the guidance of Jean Moulin

Jean Moulin

Jean Moulin was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II. He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance primarily due to his role in unifying the French resistance under de Gaulle and his courage and death at the hands of the Germans.-Before the war:Moulin was...

, the movement merged with Libération-Sud

Libération-sud

The Libération-sud resistance group was established by a group of French people, including Emmanuel d'Astier, Lucie Aubrac and Raymond Aubrac. The first important Resistant group to emerge after the German occupation, it began publishing Libération in July 1941...

 and Combat

Combat (French Resistance)

Combat was a large movement in the French Resistance created in the non-occupied zone of France during the Second World War .Combat was one of the eight great resistance movements which constituted the Conseil national de la Résistance....

 to form the Mouvements unis de la Résistance

Mouvements Unis de la Résistance

Mouvements Unis de la Résistance was a French Resistance organisation, resulting from the regrouping of three major Resistance movements in January 1943 and also the merger of the military arms of these movements within the Armée secrète . Its committee was headed by Jean Moulin...

(MUR).

Notable members

• Edouard Alexander
• Georges Altman
  Georges Altman
  Georges Altman was a French journalist and resistance fighter. During the second world war he was involved in the Franc-Tireur organisation...
  
  
• Antoine Avinin
• Marc Bloch
  Marc Bloch
  Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...
  
  
• Eugène Claudius-Petit
• Noël Clavier
• Yves Farge
  Yves Farge
  Yves Farge was a French journalist and politician.- Biography :...
  
  
• André Ferrat
• Jean-Pierre Lévy
  Jean-Pierre Levy
  Jean-Pierre Levy is a French lawyer, author and diplomat. He was the director of the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea in 1985.-Biography:...
  
  
• Elie Péju
• Auguste Pinton
• Albert Rohmer
• Henri Romans-Petit
  Henri Romans-Petit
  Henri Romans-Petit was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. He organised several maquis, notably the maquis de l'Ain et du Haut-Jura and the maquis de Haute-Savoie.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jean-Jacques Soudeille