Henry de Nompère de Champagny

Henry Clement Ernest Yves Marie de Nompère, Viscount of Champagny

Born the September 16th 1890 - castle of Kerduel, Pleumeur-Bodou, Coast-with Armor, Brittany, deceased for France, the March 14th 1944 in deportation with Flossenbürg, Germany.

captain with the 14° regiment of Hussarts and the Air force, ordering the Franco-American flotilla Spa 163, knight of the Legion of honor (1918), Military Cross 1914-1918 and 7 quotations (1918), mayor of Somloire (1920), General adviser of the Canton of Vihiers (October 14th, 1928, December 11th, 1938), Military Cross 1939-1945 and 2 quotations (1939)

After Saint-Cyr military school (1910 - 1914), it was mobilized with the 14th Hussard where it covered glory in the last loads of the cavalry of the French Army. Combatant in the trenches of Verdun, in 1916, it learned how to control to continue the combat and gained his first air victories in 1917. It ordered then the Franco-American flotilla Spa 163, within which the last aerial combat of the conflict will be gained. The captain of Champagny will finish the war with the Légion of honor, the Military Cross and 7 quotations. He had begun the combat with horse, the lance, fought ahead at the bottom of the trenches and gained 5 aerial combats!
In June 1919, he married Yvonne of Nouhes, girl of the mayor of Somloire (Maine-et-Loire) to which he succeeded in 1920, after its untimely death. General adviser of Vihiers in 1928, it contributed to the défence of the farmers, creating with their service trade unions and co-operatives. Brought back to the face in 1939, it ordered again with the outposts, a group of recognition which faced in Belgium, the test of the " Carousel of Mort".
In the bitterness of the defeat, Henry de Champagny found Somloire, where 3 years during, it carried out an obstinate resistance to the German occupants of which he was an intransigent interlocutor, defending each piece of dignity and the French interests, saving a maximum of refugees or refractories with STO. Stopped by the Gestapo with the castle of Argonne the September 18th 1943 at the same time as his/her father, it is off-set with Buchenwald in January 1944 then Flossenbürg in February. Exténué, patient, at the end of his sufferings, it would die the March 14th 1944 and its ashes were dispercées by its torturers. Its faith, luminous, major, dictated each act of its vie.
(" Henry de Champagny 1890-1944" by Philippe & Daniele Mascaro, editions Peak of Mirandole).

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