Memorial Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil

This plaque on the wall of her parents' house commemorates Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil, Vannes 1922 - Paray-le-Monial 1944.

Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil, also Agnès de Nanteuil, was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1922. Moving to Brittany as a teenager, at the beginning of WW2 she joined the French Resistance and assisted allied airmen escape from the Nazis in occupied France. Returning from a mission in March 1944, she was arrested by the Gestapo and severely interrogated. She died on 13 August 1944 at the Paray-le-Monial railway station from injuries sustained while being deported by train to Germany.

In 1947, she was posthumously awarded the Resistance Medal by Charles de Gaulle.

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Source

• Text: Rónán Gallagher & TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rónán Gallagher