Gabriel Péri

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Gabriel Péri in 1932

Gabriel Péri (Peri) (9 February 1902 — 15 December 1941) was a prominent French Communist journalist and politician, and member of the French Resistance. He was executed in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

Early life[]

Péri was born in Toulon to a Corsican family. Forced to give up his studies at an early age, the First World War and Russian Revolution had a profound effect on him and his involvement in revolutionary politics. He immersed himself in political activities, and wrote for newspapers in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille.^[1]

Career and execution[]

At the age of twenty-two, Péri became departmental manager of Foreign Politics at l'Humanité. He was elected deputy to the National Assembly for Argenteuil in 1932 and re-elected in 1936.

In the French National Assembly, Péri distinguished himself as an expert in the field of diplomatic and international relations and was a strident anti-fascist. He denounced both Benito Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia and France's non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War. Péri was also a prominent opponent of the Nazi regime in Germany. On the 21 January 1940, he was stripped of his mandate to the National Assembly and on 3 april that year sentenced to 5 years in military prison, fined and stripped of his civic and political rights for re-constituting a legally dissolved organization.^[2] He went into hiding as a result.

After the Fall of France in 1940, the country was placed under Nazi occupation. Arrested by French police on 18 May 1941, Péri was jailed at Fort Mont-Valérien, which was under the control of German forces. He was executed there on the 15 December with a group of 70 men. Albert Camus learned of Péri's execution while staying in Lyon,^[3] an event which he later said crystallized his own revolt against the Germans.

Tributes[]

Many schools and streets have been named after Gabriel Péri, as well as a Paris and a Lyon Metro station. Paul Éluard and Louis Aragon wrote poems in his tribute (titled "Gabriel Péri" and "Ballade de Celui Qui Chanta Dans les Supplices" ["Ballad to Him who Sings While Being Tortured"], respectively).

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