Gilbert Renault

See also: Renault, Remi

Gilbert Renault (August 6th 1904 with Valves, France - July 29th 1984 with Guingamp, France), was known during the Résistance under the name of colonel Rémy . It was one of the most famous secret agents of the occupied France during the Second world war, known under various pseudonyms of which Raymond, Jean-Luc, Morin, Watteau, Roulier, Beauce and Rémy.

Biography

Gilbert Renault is the elder one of a family of nine children. His/her father is professor of philosophy and English, then general inspector of an insurance company.

Raise “  goods pères  ” of the St-François-Xavier college of Valves, and after studies of right to faculty of Rennes, this sympathizer of the French Action resulting from the right Catholic and Nationalist, begins a career with the Banque de France in 1924. In 1936, it launches out in the film production and finances in particular the turning of I show , new version of film of Abel Gance. It is a resounding failure, but many bonds which it ties during this period him will be very useful during its engagement in the Résistance.

With the Call of June 18th (1940), he refuses the Armistice asked by the marshal Pétain and passes to London with one of his brothers, on board a trawler started from Lorient. He is among the first men who adopt the cause of the general de Gaulle and sees themselves entrusting by the Colonel Passy, then captain and chief of BCRA, the creation of a network of Renseignement S on the French soil.

In August of the same year, it creates with Louis of Bardonnie, the Confrérie Notre-Dame, which will become in 1944 NDT-Castille. Initially centered on the cover of the Atlantic facade, it ends up covering occupied France and the Belgium. This network was one of most important of the occupied Zone and its information allowed many military successes, as the attack of Bruneval and Saint-Nazaire.

Convinced that it is necessary to mobilize all the forces available against the occupant, it puts in contact the French Communist party with the government of the free France while taking along Fernand Grenier to London in January 1943. Gilbert Renault admits anything readily hearing with the political game, it is Pierre Brossolette which puts it in relation to trade-union and political groups.

Fact Companion of the Release by the decree of March 13rd 1942, he becomes member of the executive committee of RPF to its creation, in charge with the voyages and the demonstrations. It makes appear in Carrefour , the April 11th 1950, an article entitled justice and the opprobrium , preaching the rehabilitation of the marshal Pétain. Little time afterwards, it adheres to the Association to defend the memory of the marshal Pétain (ADMP). Repudiated by de Gaulle, he resigns of the RPF.

He settles with the Portugal in 1954 and returns in France in 1958 to place itself at the disposal of de Gaulle, who will not answer her waitings.

Renault wrote many works on its activities in the Résistance. Under the name of Rémy (one of its pseudonyms in clandestinity), it published its Mémoires of a secret agent of free France and the Line of demarcation (adapted to the cinema by Claude Chabrol in 1966), which are regarded as important testimonys on French Resistance.

It had under its orders the writer Jean Cayrol.

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