Jacqueline Netter-Minne-Guerroudj
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Jacqueline Netter-Minne-Guerroudj (born 1919) was a Frenchwoman condemned to death as an accomplice of
Fernand Iveton
during the Algerian War.
She was never executed, partly due to a campaign on her behalf conducted by Simone de Beauvoir
.
She was born as Jacqueline Netter to a bourgeois family at Rouen
in 1919. She arrived in Algeria in 1948 as the wife of Pierre Minne, a professor of Philosophy.
Remarried in 1950 to Abdelkader Guerroudj
(nicknamed "Djilali"), an activist in the FLN, she is known to history as Jacqueline Guerroudj.
On December 4, 1957, Guerroudj's daughter by her first marriage, Danièle Minne
, was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a tribunal for juveniles.
Fernand Iveton
Fernand Yveton
Fernand Iveton was the only pied noir among the 198 supporters of the FLN who were executed during the war in Algeria.Iveton was born in 1926 in Algiers to a Spanish mother and a French father...
during the Algerian War.
She was never executed, partly due to a campaign on her behalf conducted by Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir , was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and...
.
She was born as Jacqueline Netter to a bourgeois family at Rouen
Rouen
Rouen , in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe , it was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...
in 1919. She arrived in Algeria in 1948 as the wife of Pierre Minne, a professor of Philosophy.
Remarried in 1950 to Abdelkader Guerroudj
Abdelkader Guerroudj
Abdelkader Guerroudj, an Algerian, and his French wife, Jacqueline Guerroudj, were condemned to death in December 1957 as accomplices of Fernand Iveton, the only European who was guillotined for his part in the Algerian revolt...
(nicknamed "Djilali"), an activist in the FLN, she is known to history as Jacqueline Guerroudj.
On December 4, 1957, Guerroudj's daughter by her first marriage, Danièle Minne
Danièle Djamila Amrane-Minne
See also article about Djamila BouhiredDanièle Minne was one of the few European girls convicted for assisting the FLN during the Algerian War...
, was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a tribunal for juveniles.