Remy Roure

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Rémy Roure (October 30, 1885 – November 8, 1966) was a French journalist and a resistance fighter in World War II. He was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.

Roure worked for several newspapers, including Le Monde, Le Figaro, and the Swiss Le Temps, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Pierre Fervacque.

He fought in World War I, was captured and escaped several times. In the Ingolstadt fort in Bavaria in 1917, he met Charles de Gaulle and Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who would later become a notable Soviet marshal.

In World War II, Roure joined the Resistance very early. With General Cochet and François de Menthon he helped found the Liberté movement and served on its management committee. He was also a member of the Combat resistance movement and favored closer ties with de Gaulle. He joined an Allied pilot recovery network, Bordeaux-Loupiac, while continuing to write for Le Temps as cover.

On October 11, 1943, while he was transporting American pilots to Rennes, the Gestapo arrested him after a denunciation. He tried to escape but was seriously wounded; his ally Jean-Claude Camors was shot dead. Roure almost died, having severed his femoral artery, but he survived. Four days later he was held in Fresnes Prison, where he was beaten and tortured.

On April 27, 1944, he was deported to Germany, first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, arriving May 14, 1944. He was released by Allied forces on April 11, 1945. His wife, Helene Roure, died in Ravensbrück on March 31, 1945.

After the war, Roure served as a delegate to the Provisional Consultative Assembly (July 24 to August 3, 1945). He received the Order of Liberation for his service. He helped form a new Democratic Party (PD) after the war, choosing not to join the transformation of the PDP into the Popular Republican Movement. The PD later merged in 1946 with the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR).

Works written under Pierre Fervacque include: Les Demi-Vivants (1928); The Leader of the Red Army Michaël Toukhatchevski (1928); The Proud Life of Trotsky (1929); L'Alsace minée or De Autonomisme alsacien (1929); L'Alsace et le Vatican (1930); Anaïs, petite vivaroise (1930); Le Secret d'Azeff (with Pierre Tugal) (1930); Free Pages. The 4th Republic: birth and abortion of a regime (1945-1946) in Le Monde (1948).