Georges-Pierre de Froment (alias Pierre Foureix , alias Deblé ) is a soldier and resistant French. It was born the November 17th 1913 with Chateauroux, garrison of his father, old military cadet which will be killed with the head of its company, in Artois (May 1915). It enters to Saint-Cyr military school and, after a beginning of traditional career, in 1939, it is sent on mission special in Poland, where it attends the rout. It returns then to France and takes share, in May 1940, with the actions intended to block the German army which crossed the Meuse.

The resistant one (1940-1943)

After the defeat of the French Army, it meets, at the beginning of September 1940 with Marseilles, the captain Henri Frenay, occupied constituting an embryo of resistance movement which will become Combat, the most important movement of the not-occupied zone. Frenay charges Froment with being its representative in occupied zone. It falls from now on to the lieutenant to create a vast network of information in north, directly affected with the drafting of clandestine bulletins that Frenay imagined to try to inform the population and to promote a spirit of resistance. It is, with some others, at the origin of the newspaper the Small Wings of France (first publication May 17th 1941). At the beginning of February 1942, the group to which it belongs is decimated by a wave of arrests. Very isolated, Pierre de Froment however continues to pack his network towards industrial environments and the SNCF through all the occupied zone.

The deportation (1943-1945)

In January 1943, Wheat, denounced by the double agent Square Mathilde (alias " Chatte"), is stopped by two men of the Gestapo. Imprisoned with Fresnes, it is off-set at the summer 1943 with and the extermination concentration camp of Mauthausen (Austria). In May 1945, the camp is released by the Americans. Pierre de Froment, terribly weakened, finds France and remains with the Sanatorium of Briançon where it writes, in 1946, the account of his deportation with Mauthausen (published in 2004), text impresses of an enthusiastic Christian humanism.

After the war

• 1947 : reinstate the army.
• 1953 : University of War. With its exit, Military attach3e during four years in Yugoslavia and Albania.
• 1961 : arrive in Algérie, like assistant of the commander of the sector of Blida, then becomes (after the Putsch of the Generals), ordering sector of Blida.
• 1962 - 1964: Chief of the service Action of SDECE (Service of external documentation and against-espionage).
• It finishes its career Major general, with the head of the 44e military region with Toulouse, in 1973.

Pierre de Froment dies the November 14th 2006 with Moulins (To combine). He is buried with the cemetery of Montlevicq (Indre).

Decorations

• Grand Cross of the National order of the Merit

• Large Officer of the Legion of honor
• Medal of Resistance

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