Brigitte Friang Explained

Brigitte Friang
Birth Date:	23 January 1924
Birth Place:	Paris, French
Nationality:	French

Brigitte Friang (23 January 1924 – 6 March 2011) was a French journalist, writer and French Resistance member.^[1]

Biography

Friang was born in Paris in 1924 and immediately after leaving school in Paris in 1943 joined the French Resistance.^[2] Working in the same group as Colonel F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, she was captured by the Gestapo, shot while trying to escape, then taken to Fresnes Prison and tortured, before being deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp.^{[2] [3]}

After the war, Friang was liberated and returned to Paris where she worked for four years as a press aide to André Malraux, before becoming a journalist.^[2] In 1953, she was sent to French Indochina as a war correspondent.^{[3] [4]} There she undertook parachute training and was dropped, in the opening hours of Operation Castor, into Điện Biên Province, in the north-west corner of Vietnam.^{[3] [5]} She made several combat jumps including one with Lt Col Bigeard's 6th Colonial Paratroop Battalion at Tu-Le after which she accompanied the 6th on their retreat to French lines.^{[3] [6]} She survived the war and returned to Paris where she worked as a writer and journalist until her retirement.

On 6 June 1954, she appeared as a challenger on the TV panel show What's My Line? (the mystery guests for that episode were George Burns and Gracie Allen).

Friang died 6 March 2011 at the age of 87.

Published works

• Book: Friang, Brigitte . 0 . Cadel . James . 1958 . Parachutes and Petticoats . London . Jarrolds . B0006DCEQY . B0000CK0Z8 .
• Book: Friang, Brigitte . 0 . 1955 . Les Fleurs du ciel . The Flowers of Heaven . Paris . Robert Laffont . 978-2-221-02334-1 . fr .
• Book: Friang, Brigitte . 0 . 1976 . La Mousson de la liberté. Vietnam, du colonialisme au stalinisme . The Storm of freedom. Vietnam, from colonialism to Stalinism . Paris . Plon . 978-2259001663 . fr .
• Book: Friang, Brigitte . 0 . 1977 . Un Autre Malraux . Another Malraux . Paris . Plon . 978-2-259-00274-5 . fr .
• Book: Friang, Brigitte . 0 . 1978 . Regarde-toi qui meurs 1943 - 1945 . Look at You Who Die 1943 - 1945 . 2 Vols . Paris . France Loisirs . 9782724203820 . fr .
• Book: Friang, Brigitte . 0 . 2001 . Petit tour autour de Malraux . Little Bit About Malraux . Paris . Félin . 978-2-86645-413-5 . fr .

Notes and sources

• Book: Fall, Barnard . Bernard Fall . 2005 . Street Without Joy . Barnsley . Pen & Sword Military . 978-1-84415-318-3 .
• Book: Simpson, Howard R. . 1994 . Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot . registration . London . Brassey's . 978-1-57488-024-3 .
• Book: Windrow, Martin . Martin Windrow . 2004 . The Last Valley . Weidenfeld and Nicolson . 0-306-81386-6 . registration .

Notes and References

1. Le Figaro . Mar 8, 2011 . Décès de la résistante Brigitte Friang . fr . Death of the resistant Brigitte Friang . Obituary .
2. Friang (1958), 12–24.
3. Fall, 138.
4. Friang (1958), 25–27.
5. Simpson, 29.
6. Windrow, 249