Michel Bruguier Explained

Michel Brugier
Birth Date:	17 November 1921^[1]
Birth Place:	Carcassonne^[2]
Death Date:	^[3]

Michel Bruguier (17 November 1921 - 16 March 1967) was a French lawyer and resistance fighter.

Early life and education

Michel Bruguier was born on November 17, 1921, in Carcassonne.^[4] He was the son of Georges Bruguier. Once he moved to Paris he joined the preparatory classes of the Lycée Henri-IV.

Career

During World War II, Bruguier joined a combat network, becoming its departmental manager in July 1942. He was imprisoned from 1942 to 1943. Subsequently, freed, he was appointed as a regional inspector of the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance. He was later promoted to chief of the French Forces of the Interior of the Gard (under the wartime name of “Commandant Audibert”). Bruguier then joined the departmental liberation committee of Gard, as he had been a student there.^[5] He would later join the French Communist Party.

Bruguier studied law and plead several cases through his career; most notably the defense of Mehdi Ben Barka in company of René Thorp.

He died of a brain haemorrhage on March 16, 1967.

Distinctions

• Legion of Honour
• Croix de Guerre 1939–1945
• Resistance Medal

Gallery

File:HOMMAGE AUX VICTIMES .jpg|Bruguier at the burial of the martyrs at the pit of Célas, 18 September 1944File:MB 1947.jpg|Kravchenko trial 1947File:Gedenktafel Georges Bruguier.jpg|Commemorative plaque on the wall of the Citè du Carcassonne cemetery.

Sources

• Book: Boissard, Michel . fr . Michel Bruguier . Visas pour le Gard : un siècle, un département . Serge Velay . 2006 . Vauvert . Au diable Vauvert . 978-2-84626-101-2 .

External links

• Web site: fr . BRUGUIER Michel, Pierre (alias "commandant Audibert", pseudonyme de Résistance) . Frédérick Genevée . Sharon Elbaz . 16 May 2018 . Le Maitron .

Notes and References

1. Web site: BRUGUIER Michel, Pierre [alias "commandant Audibert", pseudonyme de (...) - Maitron |url=https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article18057 |website=maitron.fr].
2. Book: Sagnes . Jean . Pratiques et cultures politiques dans la France contemporaine: hommage à Raymond Huard . 1995 . Centre d'histoire contemporaine du Languedoc méditerranéen, Roussillon, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III . 978-2-905397-90-4 . fr.
3. Book: Cahiers du communisme . 1980 . Comité central du parti communiste français (S.F.I.C.) . fr.
4. Notice de Frédérick Genevée et Sharon Elbaz dans le Maitron (cf. Liens externes).
5. Pierre Mazier (préf. Aimé Vielzeuf), Quand le Gard se libérait, Nîmes, Lacour, 1992, p. 142.