Marie-Agnes de Gaulle

Marie-Agnes Cailliau-in Gaulle , born Marie Agnes Caroline Julie de Gaulle the May 27th 1889 in with 6th district of Paris and deceased the March 25th 1982 with Boulogne-Billancourt, was a resistant French and the older sister of Charles de Gaulle.

Biography

Marie-Agnes de Gaulle marries with in the 7th district of Paris, the January 18th 1910, Alfred Cailliau, a Belgian engineer born with Tournai the August 7th 1877 and died in 1967. At the time of the First World War, it was responsible for the evacuation of his/her brother, then lieutenant de Gaulle, wounded with Dining the August 16th 1914, while going up to the attack of the unfavourable trenches.

During the Second world war, she answers the Appel of June 18th, 1940, launched by the Général de Gaulle by quickly engaging in the French Résistance. His/her son Michel Cailliau was him also large resistant. She was arrested with her husband in 1943 and was imprisoned fourteen months with the Prison of Fresnes, then off-set with the concentration camp of Godesberg. Her husband will be him off-set with Buchenwald. Towards the end of the hostilities, in April 1945, it will be transferred in the Tyrol to the Forteresse from Itter where it crosses Maxime Weygand, Paul Reynaud, the Général Gamelin, and Jean Borotra, before recovering its freedom.

She will write a book of remembering personal on her family in 1970.

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