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Pierre Brossolette

1903 - 1944

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Pierre Brossolette (French: [pjɛʁ bʁɔsɔlɛt]; 25 June 1903 – 22 March 1944) was a French journalist, politician and major hero of the French Resistance in World War II. Brossolette ran a Resistance intelligence hub from a Parisian bookshop on the Rue de la Pompe, before serving as a liaison officer in London, where he also was a radio anchor for the BBC, and carried out three clandestine missions in France. Arrested in Brittany as he was trying to reach the UK on a mission back from France alongside Émile Bollaert, Brossolette was taken into custody by the Sicherheitsdienst (the security service of the SS). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Brossolette is the 85th most popular journalist (down from 78th in 2019), the 4,469th most popular biography from France (down from 4,283rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Pierre Brossolette ranks 85 out of 196. Before him are Edward R. Murrow, Veronica Guerin, Jon Ola Sand, Norbert Haug, Malcolm Browne, and Maurizio Costanzo. After him are Vladimir Solovyov, Malcolm Campbell, Piers Morgan, Aleksey Suvorin, Marina Ovsyannikova, and Kenji Goto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Pierre Brossolette ranks 263. Before him are Koto Matsudaira, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, Guillermo Saavedra, Vladimir Lossky, and Lothar Bolz. After him are Igor Newerly, Ferdinand Adams, E. O. Plauen, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Georg Gehring, and Walter Weiler. Among people deceased in 1944, Pierre Brossolette ranks 257. Before him are Jacques Roumain, Al Smith, C. V. Boys, Wendell Willkie, Robert Curry, and Leon Kozłowski. After him are E. O. Plauen, Grace Chisholm Young, Chandramukhi Basu, Han Yong-un, Charles Marion, and Arthur Smith Woodward.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Brossolette ranks 4,469 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Wresinski (1917), Jean de Sponde (1557), Maurice Lafont (1927), Jean-Claude Gaudin (1939), Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680), and Clément Turpin (1982). After him are Lucien Sève (1926), Jules Verreaux (1807), Aymeric Laporte (1994), Alfred Aston (1912), Ferland Mendy (1995), and Étienne Brûlé (1592).

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Among JOURNALISTS In France

Among journalists born in France, Pierre Brossolette ranks 10. Before him are Robert Guérin (1876), François Mignet (1796), Vladimir Posner (1934), Bernard Pivot (1935), Caroline Rémy de Guebhard (1855), and Robbie Ross (1869). After him are Daniel Schneidermann (1958), Catherine Leroy (1944), and Rémi Ochlik (1983).

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