WAR 1939-1945. SIMON OCTAVE (1914-1944) SECRET... - Lot 128 - Aguttes

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WAR 1939-1945. SIMON OCTAVE (1914-1944) SECRET... - Lot 128 - Aguttes
WAR 1939-1945. SIMON OCTAVE (1914-1944) SECRET AGENT OF THE RESISTANCE 63 L.A.S., 1939-1941, to HIS WIFE Michelle; various sizes. Moving correspondence to his fiancée and then his wife, née Michelle Douard de Fleurance. These touching intimate letters, signed mainly "Octave" or "Oct.", but also with sobriquets, go from December 1939 (beginning of their relationship) to October 1941; Octave and Michelle were married on October 26, 1940. Most of them evoke his life in the cavalry garrison (EOR) in Evreux or Rambouillet, then the exodus to the Haute-Vienne, and the return to Paris where Simon found his sculptor's studio. A sculptor, Octave Simon was involved in resistance and intelligence activities after the defeat of 1940, playing an important role in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) networks, and ensuring dangerous connections with England. He escaped the Gestapo several times; in March 1944, he was parachuted into France, but was intercepted by the Germans, tortured and then deported to Germany where he died at the age of thirty. A set of archives is attached: a military mission order signed by Lt-Colonel de Padirac (July 1940), a pass (July 1941); about a hundred letters (from his wife Michelle, family, friends) addressed to him, autograph notes from Octave Simon on his sculpture work, administrative papers, etc. About fifty family photos from his last years (him, his wife, his daughter...); a bronze medal (4 cm) engraved with his name as a souvenir of riding exams in Paris in 1931; 2 Legion of Honor rosettes (jacket buttons) and an old coat of arms print on red wax.
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