Martial de Villemandy

Martial de Villemandy is the principal one carrying out attack of Pont-sur-Seine (Aube) against the Général de Gaulle (September 8th, 1961). It is him which pressed on the detonator of the explosive load. It was captured immediately afterwards.

Biography

It was born with Paris into 1927 from a couple from opera singer. Its childhood was marked by the ceaseless voyages, the randomly chopped schoolings of engagements. With the Release of Paris, it engaged and was sent to assemble the guard in front of the Poche of Royan. Demobilized at the end of 1945 he was surveyor's assistant with Algiers, then engaged in 1947 with the 1st regiment of colonial infantry. The hoped adventure does not take place, it is found with Puget-on-Argens and deserted. Decree, the court of Marseilles grants the deferment to him if he asks to leave in Indo-China. It arrives at Saigon where it is made demobilize in 1952 but remains in the city. It found there a work in a company of navigation then becomes announcer with Radio-Asia. Returned in France in 1955, he works during three years with Rheims in a coal merchant then comes to Paris, makes the “street photographer” in the street before becoming broker in auto insurance. In 1961, it is 34 years old, it is a man thin, nervous, afflicted with a strong myopia and a glibness intarrissable. It has a strong need to appear masking a lack of confidence in him. He attends the casinos and the bars where he is made call Viscount of Villemandy, which causes the mockeries of his/her friends.

Source

  • Jacques Delarue and Odile Rudelle, the attack of the Petit-Clamart , French Documentation, Paris, 1990.

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