Raphaël Élizé
Raphaël Élizé is a French politician, born with the Lamentin Martinique on February 4th 1891, died with Buchenwald on February 9th 1945.
He is the first black mayor of Metropolitan France: in 1929, Sablé-sur-Sarthe elects the first West-Indian as mayor of a metropolitan commune.
This veterinary surgeon was elected in 1929, which was not a mean success at one time of rise of intolerance. All the more remarkable success as Raphaël Élizé was socialist and where it realized for the town of Sablé-sur-Sarthe of great projects.
Demobilized in 1940, it pressed the prefect to return his functions to him, attracting itself this objection of Feldkommandantur: “It is incomprehensible for the German resentment and the direction of the German right that a coloured man can cover the load of mayor”.
Relieved, Élizé takes again its trade and takes part in the Résistance (Buckmaster network). Denounced, stopped, and off-set in a German camp in 1943. It is seriously wounded during the allied bombardment of the German arms factory of Gustloff-Weimar on February 9th, 1945, and even died in Buchenwald the evening. Two months earlier he had begged: “Good god, that they all kill us, and that the ground is removed from these savages! ”
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