Bernard de Chalvron

Bernard de Chalvron was a French diplomat, political advisor and member of the French Resistance during World War II.[1]

Career

Bernard de Chalvon was a diplomat.[2] He had royalist tendencies.[2]

In the early 1940s, he served as a political advisor on French Algeria to Marshal Philippe Pétain.[3] He was later replaced by Jacques Tiné.[3]

In 1942, he joined the Noyautage des administrations publiques of the French Resistance.[2] After its founder, Claude Bourdet, was arrested, de Chalvron served as its President.[2] He gave copies of reports of meetings conducted by the Vichy government to the United States embassy in Paris, including information about the treatment of Jews.[1] He was arrested and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in May 1944.[1][2] He was liberated by the Americans in 1945.[1]

Personal life

His son, Alain de Chalvron, is a political journalist.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Didier Epelbaum, Itinéraire de Bernard de Chalvron, diplomate et chargé de mission à Vichy. Un anti-Papon., Libération, April 3, 1998
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Simon Epstein, Un paradoxe français, Paris: Albin Michel, 2008, p. 495
  3. 1 2 Jérôme Cotillon, L'Empire français dans la Révolution Nationale : l'exemple de la vision algérienne des entourages du maréchal Pétain (1940- 1942), Outre-mers, 2004, vol. 91, issue 342-342, pp. 42-43
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