Monnaie in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe
Georges Loiseleur
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, June 25, 2023
1. Georges Loiseleur Marker
est tombé
pour la liberation de Paris
Georges Loiseleur
prisonnier évadé
Mort pour la France
le 19 août 1944
a l’age de 28 ans
Here on the 19th of August for the liberation of Paris fell at the age of 28 Georges Loiseleur, prison escapee. Died for France.
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II. In addition, it is included in the Liberation of Paris series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1944.
Location. 48° 51.241′ N, 2° 20.61′ E. Marker is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Monnaie. Memorial is on Quai des Grands Augustins, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 17 Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris, Île-de-France 75006, France. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. René Dova (here, next to this marker); Robert S. White (within shouting distance of this marker); Les coches d'eau / Water Coaches (within shouting distance of this marker); Georges FULLY (within shouting
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Also see . . .
1. Plaque à la Mémoire de Georges Loiseleur (Musée de la Résistance en ligne, in French).
Excerpt (in translation): On August 19, 1944, as a precautionary measure, the FFIs were placed in a roadblock at each street corner leading to the Île de la Cité: place du Châtelet and quai de la Mégisserie to the north, place Saint-Michel and quai des Grands -Augustins to the south, square Viviani to the east. The instruction is not to let any vehicle pass and to seize the weapons of the soldiers who will be captured or killed.(Submitted on August 13, 2023.)
A truck approaches by the Quai des Grands-Augustins. Molotov cocktail, grenade, machine gun burst? Anyway, the truck is stopped dead in its tracks. Georges Loiseleur rushes and climbs onto the plateau where the inanimate soldiers are lying. He wants to retrieve a weapon. Alas one of them, whom he believed to be dead, takes out his pistol and shoots. A medical student, a neighbor of hisbuilding, runs up and picks him up. He takes him to the Hôtel-Dieu just across the Seine. But Georges Loiseleur dies during transport.Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, June 25, 20232. Georges Loiseleur Marker - wide viewThe Loiseleur plaque is visible here on the left side of doorway, just above the Renè Dova plaque.
2. Paris 1944: True stories behind liberation from Nazis (BBC, August 23, 2014). The BBC tells the story of Georges Loiseleur, and uses it as a starting point to explain the presence of the more than 500 plaques in the city memorializing those who fell in the liberation of Paris.
Excerpt: Paris was abuzz. A short distance away, he could hear chaotic sounds from the Ile de la Cite, where police had come out for the Resistance and taken control of their HQ. The longed-for insurrection was under way.(Submitted on August 13, 2023.)
Loiseleur was a former soldier who had escaped from prison camp in Germany. For the past two years he had been living and working in Paris in semi-clandestinity.
He was attached to a Resistance group, but like many other young men his instructions had been to wait. Now finally here was the chance to act.
Credits. This page was last revised on August 13, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 13, 2023, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 53 times since then and 8 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 13, 2023, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
