Guy Mocquet was not alone. It is "only" one of the best known, while others are too often forgotten (e) s. There were thousands of all ages, all professions and all walks of life:
All and all were victims of their commitment, some members of the wealthy family of shipowners to Vieljeux Seaman Pillien Jacques and his friend butler Paul Peyrat. Let's not forget all the others. These two deserve as much as Guy to talk a few of them today.
This Oct. 22, teachers in France have had to read to their students the last letter of Guy Mocquet, the young student who thought unlucky Parisien and experience the great adventure begins with concretely to resist "the air time "evil of France in 1941.
Denounced perhaps by chance, probably because of strong personal war experience too, (who was, at age 17?) Adventure has ended badly for him. He made chopper, at the wrong time it seems. Shot by the occupant, he earned eternal youth la célébrité et notre Admiration.
Denounced perhaps by chance, probably because of strong personal war experience too, (who was, at age 17?) Adventure has ended badly for him. He made chopper, at the wrong time it seems. Shot by the occupant, he earned eternal youth la célébrité et notre Admiration.
Guy Môcquet fut parfaitement lucide du début jusqu'à sa fin de sa très modeste action Résistante, sa fameuse lettre nous le prouve. Nous savons peu de choses sur lui, mais à 17 ans Guy était déjà un Homme décidé et politisé, ça au moins c'est sûr.
Sans doute ceux qui décidèrent "ce qui lui est arrivé", avaient-ils parfaitement compris qui était en face d'eux:
- Un ennemi redoutable pour l'avenir.
Sans doute ceux qui décidèrent "ce qui lui est arrivé", avaient-ils parfaitement compris qui était en face d'eux:
- Un ennemi redoutable pour l'avenir.
Guy Môcquet "récupéré"
C'est une leçon qu'il still gives high school students today:
- Know resist with force even modestly, to "air time bad." Our "bad air time" is not the same as 1941. But there is at least as heavy, a very different way.
- Recently the newspaper from 20:00 TV announced that the son of his father and studying in 2nd year of law waives the chairmanship of the managing body of the District of Paris La Defense. The outcry was memorable, he has toured the world! (read "Courrier International", John may have finally figured) That said he did not give up at all in a position to EPAD, a genre that I'm reserved for people with experience. This is called a banana republic.
- Know resist with force even modestly, to "air time bad." Our "bad air time" is not the same as 1941. But there is at least as heavy, a very different way.
- Recently the newspaper from 20:00 TV announced that the son of his father and studying in 2nd year of law waives the chairmanship of the managing body of the District of Paris La Defense. The outcry was memorable, he has toured the world! (read "Courrier International", John may have finally figured) That said he did not give up at all in a position to EPAD, a genre that I'm reserved for people with experience. This is called a banana republic.
I do not like all these campaigns, "com" regularly organized in the genus Ah, That the Vichy regime was very bad ... Oh, That we, we are democracy ... " Are you sure? The cat looks at me right now, probably did not read The Princess of Cleves. It does not seem necessary to say to you here regularly, perhaps because it is unlikely.
The first of the four governments of Vichy. To its end this regime was a dangerous and "funny team" without any consistency and some of whose members had no ethics. For worse cases, but also sometimes for the better, everyone was developing personal goals or ulterior ulterior ...
All that to say that the notables of France are not well placed to commemorate Guy Môquet and all others. They give lessons to the world since the 1980s, but they do absolutely nothing to resist the "air time". On the contrary! Our "elites" say "you have to adapt ", just as the Vichy government in its time. On the other hand at the time all was not as simple as it is said today. Indeed, even "in house", in Vichy we resisted. This sometimes happened to them in a manner so unusual and effective:
Ministers today do nothing to protect the people against a terrible adversity, unlike the Vichy regime, besides everything else, and "what we know." Charles De Gaulle said:
- "In Vichy, there was not that Vichy ..." (my grandfather escaped from Germany in 1941 and sought Montpellier by police as such, only had to write a letter to the Ministry of Prisoners in Vichy to stop it. He found his work at the station, in addition to commit some "indiscretions" to the first customer "obligations" of railways at the time. Guess who it was ... We do not understand what was happening in that department, except that it was better than the Jews refrain from writing to them, although some were imprudent to do so without being bitten fingers afterwards! Who knows who, how and why ...)
The Admiral Bléhaut was a "nice", while some other admirals in Vichy were much less:
The young sailor Pillien Jacques and his friend Paul Butler committed Peyrat March 6, 1942 aboard the freighter Gabriel Guist'hau the worst crime of the sailors, they mutinied. They seized the ship by the ruse, then they tried to divert it to Gibraltar to join the British and the Free France of de Gaulle.
We still speak of the deplorable affair of the Bounty. We know also do it in France, but we always forget. In two completely different contexts, which remembers the hijacking of the liner France in 1974 when it was announced disarmament définitif? Qui se souvient du détournement vers la Corse du car-ferry de la SNCM Pascal Paoli en Octobre 2005?
Cela dit les enjeux n'étaient pas les mêmes qu'en 1941, ça c'est sûr... Jacques Pillien et Paul Peyrat avaient entre 17 et 18 ans et voulaient continuer le combat avec les alliés, comme la majorité des marins du commerce jeunes et célibataires à ce moment. Par contre les autres marins, mariés avec des enfants et qui avaient leur place stable dans les compagnies de navigation, préféraient naturellement le plus souvent rester dans la légalité du moment, ne serait-ce que pour "avoir l'oeil" de près sur leur famille... Qui oserait leur jeter Stone?
Legality of time, it was the largest part of the merchant fleet became Vichy with the Navy remained unbeaten in 1940 alone. This feature of the disaster of May and June 1940 was to have very serious consequences, beginning with the enormous influence of sudden admirals in all areas, for better and worse. There was even become Prefects of the captains, it said.
Legality of time, it was the largest part of the merchant fleet became Vichy with the Navy remained unbeaten in 1940 alone. This feature of the disaster of May and June 1940 was to have very serious consequences, beginning with the enormous influence of sudden admirals in all areas, for better and worse. There was even become Prefects of the captains, it said.
François Darlan, Admiral of the Fleet and Prime Minister of Vichy.
This situation has created a very dangerous cleavage between all French sailors. Worse, this cleavage was naturally highly unstable. In fact almost everyone was undecided, usually depending on the developments in Germany. Us in 2009, we know the "end of the film." There was therefore "the mood" as wanting to join the English who came to attack the fleet being demobilized at the naval base of Mers-el-Kebir, killing more than 1,300 sailors July 3, 1940, this n was not highly regarded by everyone.
Ships of the French lines to the West Coast of Africa were obliged to sail in convoys protected by the Navy, to be absolutely sure:
- Nobody is trying to rejoin the British at Gibraltar move for example ...
- That the Allies could not capture the French ships, whose neutrality news was very theoretical. Because they do not have deprived them, whenever it was possible.
The Gabriel Guist'hau (thank you to the UIM site often cited in my board)
On March 6, 1942 the ship sailed in convoy Gabriel Guist'hau under escort transitioning Strait of Gibraltar en route from Casablanca to Dakar, Oran and Algiers. Overnight and at the most favorable youth sailors Pillien Jacques Paul Peyrat and Yves Lecalboullec have captured the bridge by enclosing the helmsman, watch the sailor, the radio officer, the watch officer and the commander , having procured by fraud from the edge of some weapons, revolvers normally kept in the commander.
Then, having studied the maps for weeks, they suddenly put "full ahead" and set sail for Gibraltar! The
Sétoise Toulon and La, the Navy escorts of finding this bizarre behavior, immediately questioned the Guist'hau no answer. Then they ont ordonné:
-" Stoppez ou on vous coule! " Sans réponse.
-" Stoppez ou on vous coule! " Sans réponse. Bis...
Tandis que le traditionnel "navire observateur" Anglais se rapprochait, la Sètoise et la Toulonnaise ont accéléré pour se rapprocher aussi. Malheureusement le commandant du Guist'hau (un ultra-Vichyste) réussit à se libérer.
Tandis que le traditionnel "navire observateur" Anglais se rapprochait, la Sètoise et la Toulonnaise ont accéléré pour se rapprocher aussi. Malheureusement le commandant du Guist'hau (un ultra-Vichyste) réussit à se libérer.
Comme il n'avait aucune confiance en "ces petits salopards vicieux de gaullistes et de communistes qui sont partout", il avait planqué une arme dont tout le monde ignorait l'existence...
J'ai cité ici le Cdt Callo qui est alors allé libérer prisoners. (All others slept) then He threatened the engineer officer on watch "down" to stop and put "full astern", with his revolver to his head:
- " Stop! And behind it all! Execution! ! "Shortly after, Maj. Callo said light signals to his military escort:
-" I pirates on the bridge! Shoot it! "
Meanwhile the Sétoise Toulonnaise and approached as quickly as possible, so they were surprised by the sudden reverse of Guist'hau. Collision! Then the bridge was taken by force and Maj. Callo slightly injured. Pillien and Peyrat n'eurent So the time to jump into the water to try to join the English, who stood motionless while less than 60 meters.
The disaster was inevitable because being in a position of weakness before the French, the English did not dare do anything and walked out of caution shortly after a second collision, this time without much breakage. Pillien Peyrat and were thus caught shortly after Yves Lecalboullec. This diversion created by amateurs having failed, they were imprisoned in Oran as soon as possible and then found two weeks later.
At first they were treated sympathetically by boys whose often secretly agreed with the majority ce qu'ils avaient fait, à commencer d'ailleurs par le Cdt de la Sétoise qui n'était pas un vichyste très convaincu.
D'autre part ces 3 jeunes gens étaient, contrairement à Guy Môcquet, totalement inconscients de la gravité légale des faits. Sur le moment malgré toutes leurs émotions fortes, ils considéraient leur acte pour " de la bricole "...
C'est à Mers El Kébir que l'affaire a commencé à très mal tourner car vu de Vichy, ce n'était pas " de la bricole ":
- INCULPATION de mutinerie, piraterie, détournement du navire et de sa cargaison, vol d'armes, violence envers le timonier, l'officier radio and Commander, dangerous maneuver that caused a collision, attempted delivery of the vessel to the enemy and to conclude, all constituted a betrayal of the Fatherland ...
- " Stop! And behind it all! Execution! ! "Shortly after, Maj. Callo said light signals to his military escort:
-" I pirates on the bridge! Shoot it! "
Meanwhile the Sétoise Toulonnaise and approached as quickly as possible, so they were surprised by the sudden reverse of Guist'hau. Collision! Then the bridge was taken by force and Maj. Callo slightly injured. Pillien and Peyrat n'eurent So the time to jump into the water to try to join the English, who stood motionless while less than 60 meters.
The disaster was inevitable because being in a position of weakness before the French, the English did not dare do anything and walked out of caution shortly after a second collision, this time without much breakage. Pillien Peyrat and were thus caught shortly after Yves Lecalboullec. This diversion created by amateurs having failed, they were imprisoned in Oran as soon as possible and then found two weeks later.
At first they were treated sympathetically by boys whose often secretly agreed with the majority ce qu'ils avaient fait, à commencer d'ailleurs par le Cdt de la Sétoise qui n'était pas un vichyste très convaincu.
D'autre part ces 3 jeunes gens étaient, contrairement à Guy Môcquet, totalement inconscients de la gravité légale des faits. Sur le moment malgré toutes leurs émotions fortes, ils considéraient leur acte pour " de la bricole "...
C'est à Mers El Kébir que l'affaire a commencé à très mal tourner car vu de Vichy, ce n'était pas " de la bricole ":
- INCULPATION de mutinerie, piraterie, détournement du navire et de sa cargaison, vol d'armes, violence envers le timonier, l'officier radio and Commander, dangerous maneuver that caused a collision, attempted delivery of the vessel to the enemy and to conclude, all constituted a betrayal of the Fatherland ...
Old Marshal and his "second" Only a renowned lawyer in Oran dared try to defend and police suspected of trying to * help them escape, were replaced by " cool kids. " This was the Vichy regime, nobody trusted anyone .
(* it was a measure absolutely "justified" by the way, they would do it!)
Attic bad luck, they came across a Special Military Tribunal Marine, composed entirely of guys who came directly from Syria, those of the army of General Dentz. Not funny! The Vichy army of that general became totally pro-German, had indeed carry very heavy fighting against the French Open and the British in Syria and Lebanon.
(* it was a measure absolutely "justified" by the way, they would do it!)
Attic bad luck, they came across a Special Military Tribunal Marine, composed entirely of guys who came directly from Syria, those of the army of General Dentz. Not funny! The Vichy army of that general became totally pro-German, had indeed carry very heavy fighting against the French Open and the British in Syria and Lebanon.
General Dentz Darlan and Vichy so they were all three condemned to be executed by firing squad. On the other hand the mercy petition of Marshall was denied the same evening and a second When the day of execution. That is to say they wanted to "make an example".
- Jacques Peyrat Pillien and Paul were then shot by the Navy at Mers-el-Kebir March 23, 1942 at 06:00 am, 17 days after the incident. At the time, it does not hang out! Yves Lecalboullec was lucky not to be shot, only to have failed to prove he was 17. Pillien Peyrat and had in fact too much "hacked" their papers, because for the English hire them, it was 18 years old!
- The death penalty was at the time prohibited under 18 ...
Yves Lecalboullec had much luck, but it has everything well almost lost his health. He was released from his concentration camp shortly after 8 November 1942, when the Americans landed in North Africa, when Admiral Darlan "turncoat" in passing on the Allied side, he who a few months earlier. .. This reversal
local and total situation was therefore a consequence of a hero young Pillien, Peyrat and Lecalboullec. Their trial was revised course, convictions quashed and their criminal records erased a few weeks later. It made them look good to Pillien and Peyrat, while Lecalboullec has struggled to regain their health ...
The ex-novice sailor-light cargo Gabriel Guist'hau long remained traumatized by this painful experience, he spoke very little until the end of his life. Died in 1995 he finished his successful career as Master Mechanic aboard supertankers from the NOC in 1979. As Guy Mocquet, and Peyrat Pillien were probably the last right and the talent to make a nice letter to their parents. A Paris subway station now bears the name of Guy Mocquet and try to exploit it politically. French merchant ships have also carried the names of heroes in the fifties.
- Jacques Peyrat Pillien and Paul were then shot by the Navy at Mers-el-Kebir March 23, 1942 at 06:00 am, 17 days after the incident. At the time, it does not hang out! Yves Lecalboullec was lucky not to be shot, only to have failed to prove he was 17. Pillien Peyrat and had in fact too much "hacked" their papers, because for the English hire them, it was 18 years old!
- The death penalty was at the time prohibited under 18 ...
Yves Lecalboullec had much luck, but it has everything well almost lost his health. He was released from his concentration camp shortly after 8 November 1942, when the Americans landed in North Africa, when Admiral Darlan "turncoat" in passing on the Allied side, he who a few months earlier. .. This reversal
local and total situation was therefore a consequence of a hero young Pillien, Peyrat and Lecalboullec. Their trial was revised course, convictions quashed and their criminal records erased a few weeks later. It made them look good to Pillien and Peyrat, while Lecalboullec has struggled to regain their health ...
The ex-novice sailor-light cargo Gabriel Guist'hau long remained traumatized by this painful experience, he spoke very little until the end of his life. Died in 1995 he finished his successful career as Master Mechanic aboard supertankers from the NOC in 1979. As Guy Mocquet, and Peyrat Pillien were probably the last right and the talent to make a nice letter to their parents. A Paris subway station now bears the name of Guy Mocquet and try to exploit it politically. French merchant ships have also carried the names of heroes in the fifties.
A cargo ship has porté ce nom " Matelots Pillien et Peyrat " jusqu'en 1962, à sa démolition. Les parents (résistants aussi) de Jacques Pillien ont pu récupérer son corps en 1946, il est donc au cimetière à Eaubonne en région Parisienne, où la rue de sa maison natale porte son nom, j'ai d'ailleurs habité durant 9 mois à 200 m de là en 1991. Le pauvre Peyrat était Bordelais et n'avait plus de famille, il est donc resté presque oublié au grand cimetière de Mers El Kébir, que la Marine Algérienne garde aujourd'hui.
- N'oublions pas ces petits gars "qui en avaient" et ces jeunes filles, au moins aussi dures à cuire.
Il serait d'autre part également injuste d'oublier le Cdt Callo qui "sauva son navire des Anglais": Il fut décoré par la Légion d'Honneur par le Maréchal pour cette action dont je reconnais moi-même qu'elle était très dangereuse et pas forcément mal intentionnée. Pour la petite histoire, le général De Gaulle s'est personnellement "occupé de son cas" en 1945:
- Le Cdt Callo s'est donc vu retirer sa Légion d'Honneur et son brevet de Capitaine au Long Cours. Charles De Gaulle ne pratiquait pas souvent le piston, mais il arrivait aussi qu'il l'enfonce quelque part dans le bas du dos des personnes méritantes...
La Tombe de Darlan, assassiné in strange conditions. For the record this sad story was told at least twice during my browsing during the evening shift on the bridge. It is part of our maritime culture. The skeleton that the Navy keeps very quietly in his closet, was discussed with much greater precision in 2007 by the Weekly "Le Marin", a very thorough investigation of the writer Jean-Yves Brouard. Moreover
Yves Lecalboullec also known as a "holiday camp" of marine cargo Belgians Carlier. Those believed to escalate buddies arrived in Dakar in the summer of 1940. They have were not disappointed ...
http://souvenirs-de-mer.blogdns.net/spip.php?article153
was "when France loses it." Because sometimes I feel it again.
Regards / Met vriendelijke groeten and thanks for reading
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The Disaster of Toulon:
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Vichy and his telephone too modern
http://souvenirs-de-mer.blogdns.net/spip.php?article171
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* Discover Admiral Bléhaut with this unusual story of the time. This is one of the strangest video clips seen on the web:
http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/musees-et-expositions/video/AFE86002408/fete-pour-les- children-of-coloniaux.fr.html
PS: A personal comment about Maj. Callo needed. I admit some admiration for him and also his energetic resistance, when the kids were trying to steal his boat to succeed. In its place, I probably would have no more left to do. On the other hand his old friendship with Darlan, who was a friend of Callo for military service during the War of 1914 was certainly the primary motivation of its positions "Vichy". He paid dearly for this old friendship.
Alas, I do not have pictures of two sailors.
The hapless schoolboy will replace the board in my .
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