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Guy Môquet ( - ) was a young French Communist militant. During the German occupation of France during World War II, he was taken hostage by the Nazis and executed by firing squad in retaliation for attacks on Germans by the French Resistance. Môquet went down in history as one of the symbols of the French Resistance. == Biography == Guy Prosper Eustache Môquet was born on 26 April 1924 in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.〔Note sent to the Central Archives of the Paris Police Prefecture on 16 October 1940, published by Patrick Thiébaut in (''Guy Môquet, un symbole'' ), National Centre of Educational Documentation, October 2007. 〕 He studied at the Lycée Carnot and joined the Communist Youth Movement. After the occupation of Paris by the Germans and the installation of the Vichy government, he was denounced on 13 October 1940 and arrested at the Gare de l'Est metro station by three police officers of the French Anti-Communist Special Brigade. He had with him a poem about three of his arrested comrades, handwritten by him:〔contrejournal.blogs.liberation.fr, Karl Laske, « La contre lettre de Guy Môquet », October 20, 2007.〕 Imprisoned in Fresnes Prison, then in Clairvaux, he was later transferred to the camp at Châteaubriant, where other Communist militants were detained. On 20 October 1941, the commanding officer of the German occupation forces in Loire-Atlantique, Karl Hotz, was assassinated by three communist resisters. Pierre Pucheu, Interior Minister of the government of Marshal Philippe Pétain, chose Communist prisoners to be given as hostages “in order to avoid letting 50 good French people get shot.” His selection comprised 18 imprisoned in Nantes, 27 at Châteaubriant, and 5 from Nantes who were imprisoned in Paris. Two days later, the 27 prisoners at Châteaubriant were shot in three groups. They refused blindfolds, and died crying out “''Vive la France''” (“Long live France”). Guy Môquet, the youngest, was executed at 4 pm. Before being shot, Môquet had written a letter to his parents. This very moving letter has become very famous (see section "Legacy" below), especially when it is put in relation with his political activism. His younger brother, Serge – 12 years old at the time – was traumatised by Guy's death and survived him only by a few days. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guy Môquet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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