National Resistance Council | French history | Britannica (original) (raw)

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resistance movements

• In resistance
  In 1943 the clandestine National Council of the Resistance (Conseil National de la Résistance) was established as the central organ of coordination among all French groups. Early the following year, various belligerent forces known as maquis (named from the underbrush, or maquis, that served as their cover) were formally…
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Vichy France

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  In France: The Resistance of France
  …Moulin, succeeded in establishing a National Resistance Council (Conseil National de la Résistance) that joined all the major movements into one federation.
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