Person in history
Madeleine Riffaud
Madeleine Riffaud, French poet, journalist and Resistance member (born 1924)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2024 · November 6
Their story
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,
Why this date
Madeleine Riffaud appears on our November 6 calendar for 2024 as a death entry.
Sources
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Questions about Madeleine Riffaud
When did Madeleine Riffaud die?
November 6 2024.
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