Michel de Camaret
Michel de Camaret , born on January 18th, 1915 with Vienna, deceased on June 24th, 1987, was a soldier, resistant, diplomatic, and French politician, member of the National front.
It militates in its youth in the Camelots of the King, connects young person French Action (AF), where it meets in particular Pierre de Bénouville.
Second lieutenant in 1940, it is wounded on June 8th. Demobilized, it joined Resistance, in company of Pierre de Bénouville: with the assistance of the Georges Groussard, it join Algiers. Camaret is stopped in 1941 by the police force of Vichy, escapes then joined London in 1942, where it is just the free French Air forces (FAFL). Member of a commando parachutist of the Free French Army (FFI), it takes part in many operations in the Morbihan, then with the Netherlands.
He will be decorated with the Libération with the Military Cross, of the Croix of the voluntary combatant of Resistance, of the Médaille of Resistance and the Ordre of the Release. He begins hardly a diplomatic career, which he takes part as Capitaine in the Guerre of Indo-China, where he is with the head of a commando of parachutists of 1947 to 1949.
He takes again his diplomatic activities thereafter, while being political adviser with NATO, permanent representative, ambassador plenipotentiary, then ambassador of France to the the Council of Europe, like Ambassadeur in Burma.
He was member of the National front (FN) of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and was elected appointed European in 1984 like second of list (not without to have made to the object of demonstrations “antifascists” at the time of the countryside), and sat in the Groupe European lines. He died in 1987.
Sources
- Bernard Antony (to dir.) Dictionary of the Counterpart , Godefroy de Bouillon, 2004 (pp.106-107)
- Site about the Release