Paul Didier born with Carcassonne (Aude) on November 15th, 1889 deceased with Paris on May 22nd, 1961. Judge with the Court of the Seine it was the only French Magistrate has to refuse to lend oath to the Marshal Pétain, ipso facto it is revoked Magistrature by the Vichy government. Imprisoned, it is interned with the camp of Chateaubriant and then assigned in residence with Moux, its native village, it takes an active part in Resistance in Corbières; with the Release he is Vice-Président of the Committee of Release of Moux (Aude).

He reinstates the Magistrature in the Release, and sits at the Court of Appeal of Paris where he is President de Chambre he takes his retirement there, Officier of the Légion of honor, Médaille of Resistance. At the Court of Appeal of Paris the memory of Paul DIDIER is evoked with respect and veneration. In 1952, had regard to its independence, a bomb explodes in its residence. Paul DIDIER sat, it suspends the Audience, a few moments later it returns and declares: “Sirs, a bomb has just burst in my residence. Excuse me to have stopped to you, the Audience is taken again. ”. September 16th, 1961, with the Official audience of re-entry of the Court of Appeal of Paris, the Prosecuting attorney LAMBERT (he also revoked by Vichy) pronounced the funeral praise: " (...) And now, Sirs, we must collect ourselves with a particular enthusiasm, because we will evoke the memory of a Magistrate who was, like at one time a famous writer, " one moment of the conscience humaine". " September 1941! twenty years ago! Our country at the bottom of the abyss. The press of bets, controlled by the enemy, announced this day that, a place of our capital, a military music (for which there is no need to specify nationality) would exploit an anthem with the glory of germanic victorious. " But in this atmosphere, this climate, these same sheets could however only dissimulate, the day before, had just achieved one of the important facts of the history of the French magistrature: president Paul DIDIER, at that time judge with the Court of the Seine, had refused the oath imposed by " the Order nouveau". " The following day, it was stopped and was to be soon directed on this camp of internment of Chateaubriant which left of so dramatic memories. " Little time before the legal re-entry of 1941, the lawyers of resistance informed of the next obligation of the oath, had requested the instructions of those which directed the clandestine fight. was one to answer by massive resignations? to let uncover those which were already engaged in the secret action against the occupant? " Keep of well, it was answered, but it would be good, nevertheless, that one of you assumed this form of open resistance.

" At this point in time Paul DIDIER decided that, if there were to be only one of them, " he would be that-là". " Dear Sirs, the memory of President DIDIER led us to point out one of the darkest periods of our history, but which was fertile in acts of courage of abnegation. The gesture of Paul DIDIER was one of them (...) ". Paul DIDIER, is rich of a strong atavism. Its ascending governors, in 1871, refuse the annexation of their native Lorraine by Prussian Germany… they leave Lorraine for the Languedoc. His/her maternal grandfather enthusiastic Ferdinand THERON Republican, savage opposing to the Empire member of the party Radical socialist, General adviser of the Canton of Capendu, City council man of Carcassonne, and Appointed of the Aude. The father of Paul DIDIER, Professor with the College of Carcassonne, Aggregate of chemistry, Doctor be-science, had was school-fellow of Maurice Barrès and Jean Jaurès with the National university. Inspector with the entrance examination with Saint-Cyr military school, it was revokes in 1892: on political grounds… Paul DIDIER, rests with the cemetery of Moux (Aude), in the family vault at the side of his grandfather Ferdinand Théron.

References:

• Audois, biographical Dictionary under the direction of Rémy CAZALS and Daniel FABRE, Carcassonne 1990.
• Resistance Audoise , Committee of History of the Resistance of the Department of the Aude, Carcassonne 1980.