In Toulouse, the Resistance will be in the spotlight this week
“The Paths of the Republic”. This is the name of the action taken by the Haut-Garon departmental council to pay tribute to the resisters opposed to the Vichy regime during World War II. Thus, two meetings will be held at the Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Toulouse, on May 25 and 27.
What is the program for Resistance Day in Toulouse?
Several tributes will take place on the occasion of the Resistance Day in Toulouse. On Wednesday May 25 at 7 p.m. the Conference “Remaking France, the Resistance 1944” will take place in the Departmental Museum of the Resistance and Deportation in Toulouse. It will be presented by Jean-Marie Guillon, professor emeritus of contemporary history at the University of Aix-Marseille, a specialist in France in the 1940s. He will unveil the project of the National Council of Resistance to rebuild the post-war Republic, and shed light on its particular political, social and memorial context.
Friday, May 27 from 2 p.m. there will be a guided tour of “The Spirit of Resistance Yesterday and Today”, still at the Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Toulouse. This is an original visit on the different forms of resistance during the Second World War and on the permanence of the spirit of Post-war resistancebecause the fights for democracy and the values of the Republic remain more topical than ever.
From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., the show “Inès 1943” by François Godard will be narrated by himself. A story staged Inès and Léon, two resistance fighters who created, in 1943, their maquis in the Southwest.
Through the actions of Museum Department of the Resistance and Deportation, the community remains engaged in a work of memory necessary to allow everyone to better understand the history of the Resistance and the resistance fighters, women and men from our department and elsewhere”, underlines , in a press release, Georges Méric, president of the Departmental Council.
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