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Madeleine Riffaud

Madeleine Riffaud, French poet, journalist and Resistance member (born 1924)

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When
Wednesday, November 6 20242 years ago
Category
DeathA notable person who died on this day.
Era
21st century · 2020s
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Person
Madeleine Riffaud

Who they were

Marie-Madeleine Riffaud was a French Resistance fighter, poet, journalist and war correspondent. After active resistance to the German occupation of France during World War II, in the course of which she was imprisoned and tortured, Riffaud reported for the Communist newspaper L'Humanité and other left-wing publications on the Algerian War and on the French, and subsequently American, wars in Vietnam. Her reporting on Vietnam was informed by four years she spent in the North in the early 1950s,

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