Maurice Chevance

Maurice Chevance , known as Chevance-Bertin, born on March 6th, 1910 with Nanteuil-le-Haudouin (Oise) and deceased on June 17th, 1996 with Paris, is a Politician and Résistant French.

He works like shop clerk before engaging in 1929 like soldier of 2nd class in the Colonial Infantry. He is useful in Algeria, then succeeds in 1932 the contest of the School of the officers of Saint-Maixent and is named lieutenant. He is affected successively in Algeria, Tunisia and in Chad. He takes part in the countryside of France as commander of a company of Senegalese riflemen of the 8th RTS. Demobilized, it founds with Marseilles an agency military and colonial, intended to deal with the luggage of the soldiers and civilians in transit. This small firm allows him to remain in contact with the military and colonial mediums and to make propaganda anti-allemande. She quickly becomes a dispensary of resistance.

It will become quickly one of the closest companions of Henri Frenay the founder of " Combat " in Lyon. Decree, it is imprisoned then released. April 1st, 1944, it leaves on mission to London to establish the connection between COMIDAC and the Staff of FFI. On its return in France in August 1944, it takes the command of FFI for South-west and the Center. It organizes the action of 30.000 men and releases the town of Rochefort.

With the release, Henri Frenay pushes it to enter in policy. It is indicated to occupy one of the six seats reserved for the movement " Combat " at the provisional Consultative Assembly. It sits at the Commissions of the national defense of France of overseas and at that of the prisoners and deportees and the pensions. It makes profitable the discussion of the budget of the civil services to present its ideas on the creation of a French imperial community. The contribution of the empire to the defense of the Fatherland seems to him to justify this initiative which will be able to live only with one strong propaganda and which if it incarnates in a single assembly.

With the elections for the first Constituent National Assembly of November 1945, he is elected appointed of Guinea. Member of the Commission of national defense, it intervenes in the discussion of the budget of 1946 and warns the Socialists against a policy of reduction of the military expenditure, asserting that the colonial army exerts, in addition to his military mission, of the economic and social tasks. He successfully deposits an amendment making it possible to institute the majority list system for the election of the deputies of the French Union. Registered with the group of democratic and socialist Resistance, he votes the nationalizations of electricity and gas, of the insurances but does not take share with the vote on that of the credit. He is opposed to the constitution project which will be rejected by the referendum of May 5th, 1946.

He gives up representing himself with the elections for the second Constituent but continuous National Assembly to be interested in the policy of overseas, leader Climats, a weekly magazine of the Union of the countries associated and reorganizing the army Vietnamese with Bao-Daï. In 1958, it makes countryside in favor of the constitutional ideas of the de Gaulle general.

After the death of Henry Frenay, important support of Rene Hardy in the business of Calluire, it publishes its memory where it shows treason Rene Hardy.

Rewards

Commander of the Legion of honor
the Military Cross with palms
Companion of the Release
Medal of Resistance with rivet washer

The biography of Maurice Chevance on the site about the Release

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