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1378 - Correspondence from Fresnes Prison. Consisting of 30 letters between Marcel Marchal, defendant No. 1/354 sentenced to death, and Mrs. Parisot in Paris. The first letter is dated December 11, 1947, and the last is dated March 29, 1948. Marcel Marchal, born on September 8, 1901, in Saint-Denis and died on October 12, 1988, in Paris, was a member of the French Communist Party (PCF), then a member of the French People’s Front (PPF), deputy mayor of Saint-Denis, general councilor, and mayor of Saint-Denis. Sentenced to death in 1948, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment with hard labor, and he was granted amnesty under the 1951 law. In his letters, he discusses his prison conditions and his legal future. Thirty letters exchanged between the condemned prisoner Marcel Marchal and Madame Parisot from December 1947 to March 1948.

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Correspondence from Fresnes Prison. Consisting of 30 letters between Marcel Marchal, defendant No. 1/354 sentenced to death, and Mrs. Parisot in Paris. The first letter is dated December 11, 1947, and the last is dated March 29, 1948. Marcel Marchal, born on September 8, 1901, in Saint-Denis and died on October 12, 1988, in Paris, was a member of the French Communist Party (PCF), then a member of the French People’s Front (PPF), deputy mayor of Saint-Denis, general councilor, and mayor of Saint-Denis. Sentenced to death in 1948, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment with hard labor, and he was granted amnesty under the 1951 law. In his letters, he discusses his prison conditions and his legal future. Thirty letters exchanged between the condemned prisoner Marcel Marchal and Madame Parisot from December 1947 to March 1948.

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Militaria: The French Army Through History. French Military Insignia
Saturday, November 21
02:00 PM
Chaussée de Wavre 504
1390 Grez Doiceau, Belgium

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