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Jean Cremet , (1892, the Mountain (Loire-Atlantique) - 1973, Brussels), alias red Hermine , or the small redhead .

Origin

Workman ironmonger with the arsenal of Indret, it is the type even of the militant Anarchist-trade unionist revolted against the Patronat and all the authorities in general, follower at his hours of the band in Bonnot. Intelligent, full with energy, it was before 1914 a trade-union militant victim of repression then a militant active Socialiste. Mobilized in 1914, sent the face, to casualty, it leaves the First World War to the roof of the revolt vis-a-vis the nonsense of the massacre.

Communist, Comintern

He chooses almost naturally the PCF at the time of the Congrès of Turns. First organizer of the Communist federation of Loire-Atlantique, it is quickly noticed by the emissary of the International Communist and their owner, Dmitri Manouilsky. To May 1923, two Communist militants of foreground in France, are invited to Moscow by Dimitri Manouilsky: Nguyen Have Quoc, the future Ho Chi Minh and Jean Cremet. In February 1923, the militant Annam ite had made appear a classified for artistic work which constituted its livelihood, in the newspaper whose Cremet was one of the organizers, communist Brittany . As of 1924, it is named assistant general secretary of the PCF and, in 1925, Stalin in person recommend it to the French comrades. He is spent without counting in the organization of the PCF in province and especially in the countryside of the Communists against the Guerre of Rif, with the Morocco. In 1926, it is named secretary of the executive committee of the Internationale to Moscow.

Espionage

With Paris, Cremet, city council man of the 14 {{E}} district and general secretary of PC, animates a vast spy network to the service of the Soviet Union. In parallel, and secretly, he had been contacted by the Soviet services which required of him to assemble a network of Espionnage aiming manufacture of war in particular. In 1927, following denunciations, Safety quickly made locate and stop all the network, including its Soviet persons in charge in Paris.

Russia, Asia

Safety with its cases, it finds refuge with its mistress with Moscow where, after having been the French representative with the Executive of the Komintern, it was opposed to Stalin and with the expulsion of Trotsky. He saving the setting, Dmitri Manouilsky, chief of the technical apparatus of the Comintern, sent it to undertake multiple clandestine missions in Europe, then in Asia. In 1929, after some secret missions in Europe and to the Middle East, some stays in sanatorium, where it looks after a Tuberculose, and some training courses in specialized centres, it is sent to Shanghai like one of the principal persons in charge of the Internationale for the the Far East (China, Korea, Japan, Indo-China). It is sent in China, with the Japan and in Indo-China to help to organize local communist movements. They work inter alia with Ho Chi Minh, and the Chinese chiefs Zhou Enlaï and Deng Xiaoping. During the dismantling of the networks of the Comintern to Shanghai, HongKong and Singapore in 1931, it disappeared.

Disappearance

Confronted with the terrible blows that the nationalists carry to the Communists of the Chinese big cities, disappointed turning of the event with Moscow, it decided to break. Knowing Stalinist manners and what could cost some to him, it decides to plunge in a " clandestinity of clandestinity ". At the time of an ultimate mission in China, during which it fed out of weapons the maquis of Mao Zedong in the Guangxi, it disappears in a mysterious way. During sixty years, one said it died. A thesis returned more often than the others: that of an assassination perpetrated by the special services Soviet S. a murder rising from its opposition to Stalin. In truth, it of it was nothing. Cremet had simulated itself its death… And it then did everything to be made forget, of pseudonyms in pseudonyms, women as women, without never ceasing the combat.

Malraux

At the summer 1931, Andre Malraux and Clara Malraux helped it to join Europe to take a new identity there. (it becomes one of the characters of the Human condition , the Chinese novel of Malraux). Return in France, via the the United States, Cremet will change identity to fix itself in Belgium. He lived under a name of loan until in 1973 where he died in Brussels under the name of Gabriel Peyrot.

The war, life

With Barcelona, it defends the Spanish République, meets George Orwell, then reappears in the Hope , the new book of Malraux. With Brussels, it hides during thirty years thanks to remarkable women, after having directed a resistance network antinazie in the Somme. It will take again its quiet life of model employee, then of pensioner.

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