On the first slopes of the Salève, the small cemetery of Bossey faces Geneva and its water jet.
A fine cross rusted by time marks the site of the tomb of Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and her husband Bernard Anthonioz (deceased in 1994), their names sealed forever on the rock. Inseparable in life, united in their ultimate rest.
The life of the general’s niece was marked by the death of her mother at the age of 5 in 1925. From Saarland which had become German, she finished her schooling in Rennes. In June 1940, a student at the faculty of history in Rennes, she entered the resistance, under the name of Germaine Lecomte.
In 1941, enrolled in a history degree at the Sorbonne, she was active in the Groupe du musée de l’Homme (resistance network).
In 1943, it joined the Defense of France network. Denounced, arrested and interned in…
2023-08-20 01:45:51
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