An unusual event took place recently at the Les Carlines nursing home, around Jeannot Martel, whose real name is René, a house painter during his working life. At the age of 20, having enlisted in 1944 as a reinforcement for the guerrillas, he was seriously injured during a group displacement and decided to remain alone there at the mercy of the Germans.
In order not to endanger his companions, he chose a grenade in his hand as his only support, so as not to be caught alive. The story was told at length by Andrée Marcel on the municipal bulletin Reflets. Jeannot, discreet and modest, never exposed this commitment to the population and then this courageous episode. It was the article in the bulletin that aroused the attention of the inhabitants, for the most part only knowing Jeannot as a pleasant neighbor or cyclist friend.
This hero without history, as titled Andrée Marcel, was honored by a magnificent diploma offered by the new President of the French Souvenir André Laugier, in the name of Gérard Carreras president delegate general, and in the presence of his family, of the Mayor Serge Porato
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