Communist-resistant Raymonde Tillon Nédelec died at the age of 100 years, said Sunday the Elysee, Hollande welcoming this “committed woman” who was “the last survivor” of the first 33 women MPs elected in 1945.
According to a statement from the Elysee, the president praised the “exemplary career of this woman,” Communist MP for Bouches-du-Rhône from 1945 to 1951 that had “engaged very young in union and political action “and was” the last survivor of the 33 women elected to the first Constituent Assembly of the Fourth Republic. ” The President of the National Assembly, Claude Bartolone, also paid tribute to “the spirit of freedom, the thirst for justice and the fight against arbitrariness in all its forms.” He recalled in a statement that the Lower House had paid tribute to the 33 “combatants” at an exhibition last year.
“Women were recognized as citizens”
Born Raymonde Barbé October 22, 1915 in Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine), she had married in 1935 Charles Nédelec, militant communist, and became MP for Bouches-du-Rhône under that name before married second husband Charles Tillon, PCF leader, minister and expelled from the PCF Politburo in 1952 and died in 1993. Lobby early in the Resistance, she was arrested March 31, 1941 and sentenced to twenty years’ hard labor by the maritime court in Toulon, according to his biography on the website of the national Assembly.
Imprisoned alternately in Marseille, Toulon and Lyon, it had been delivered to the Germans in June 1944 and deported first in Saarbrücken and the Ravensbrück camp. Assigned in a war plant in Leipzig, she had successfully escaped April 20, 1945 and regain Marseille. She then became an MP. In 2005 she had testified to AFP, recalling his feelings when he was elected 60 years ago. “We were moved. Women were recognized as citizens, taking account of their work in the Resistance” had she welcomed. “We were from different parties but all we said. Finally!”.
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