Claudine Chomat

Claudine Chomat , born on February 7th, 1915 with Saint-Etienne (the Loire) and deceased on October 14th, 1995 with Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), is resistant and a militant French Communist.

She engages with the French Communist party in 1934 and takes part in the foundation of the Union of the Young girls of France in 1936, with Danielle Casanova, Marie-Claude Valiant-Dressmaker and Jeannette Vermeersch. In 1937, she marries Victor Michaut, an communist representative, for a marriage which will last ten years.

As of the end of the year 1939, it takes part in the reorganization of the French Communist party clandestine. It directs the female Committees of resistance since 1941, which give birth, in 1944, with the Union of the French Women, of which it was elected general secretary. In 1950, it enters to the Central committee of PCF.

In 1948, it becomes the wife of the communist representative Laurent Casanova, in the wake of which it undergoes the disgrace of the Party following the Affaire Servin-Casanova in 1961.

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