The Jacques MONOD College welcomed Lucie AUBRAC yesterday. Her commitment during the Resistance was for her an act of citizenship. She testified before classes of 3rd of her attachment to citizenship in daily life, to freedom and spoke about the departure by train of her friend Janine CREMIEUX, of PAPON. She defines herself as a free trader.
Lucie AUBRAC evokes the meaning of the title of her book "Ils partir dans l'ivresse". She explains that this title corresponds to the personal message of the BBC which announced the plane that was going to pick them up in the Jura to take them to England to freedom. The book covers a period of 9 months of resistance between May 1943 and February 1944. It was the gestation period of his daughter, the birth of the maquis after the period of the refractories of the Service of Compulsory Labor, but also the time of the birth of the maquis and the unification of the Resistance.
Lucie AUBRAC had gone to see Klaus BARBIE and had used the enemy’s values to get her husband out of prison. The moral was reversed. Cheating and lying were values to be used to deceive the enemy. She was pregnant and looking for her fiancé, which did not deceive Klaus BARBIE whom she met twice.
Lucie AUBRAC met with high school students from Gap to tell them about her experience of the Resistance. The report alternates interviews with Lucie AUBRAC, a few high school students. She believes deeply in the values of the Resistance and believes that young people must be given enough critical thinking and judgment to make resistance a word of the present and not of the past.
Bernard PIVOT draws the portrait of the couple AUBRAC. She explains how she became resistant. She could not accept the situation. We had to oppose the occupant and the cooperative regime that worked with the occupant. At first, it was a constant opposition to a state of affairs.
Lucie AUBRAC explains what scheme she had invented to break out her husband Raymond AUBRAC; She managed to get him out of prison to marry him, which allowed her to ambush him. There were 15 of them during this ambush and they succeeded in the operation even though her husband was wounded.