Saint Victor in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe

Guy Basseau

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, September 11, 2024

1. Guy Basseau Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

Ici est tombé
le 22 août 1944
le combattant F.F.I.
Guy Basseau

(English translation:)
Here on August 22, 1944, fell the French Forces of the Interior fighter Guy Basseau.

Erected 2007 by Ville de Paris.

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.

Location. 48° 51′ N, 2° 20.981′ E. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Saint Victor. It is at the intersection of Rue de Bièvre and Boulevard Saint-Germain, on the right when traveling north on Rue de Bièvre. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 52 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, Île-de-France 75005, France. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

Europe,

the European Union,

Atlantic Europe,

the Schengen Area,

Western Europe,

a coastal Mediterranean country,

and the Western World.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony

and also the Roman Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other

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markers are within walking distance of this marker: Évariste Galois (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); Eglise Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet (about 120 meters away); Anne Hébert (about 150 meters away); Hôtel de Nesmond (about 180 meters away); École Élémentaire rue de Pontoise Deported Jewish Students Memorial (about 180 meters away); Dante rédige la Divine Comédie (about 240 meters away); Square de l’Île-de-France (1914) (approx. 0.3 kilometers away); Georges Guerin (approx. 0.3 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.

Also see . . . Basseau, Guy Bernard Paul (Maitron, in French). Excerpt (in translation):

… He therefore joined the Resistance on August 13, 1944, with the FFI of the 5th arrondissement and he was approved for the Libé-Nord movement from August 15 to 22, 1944…. He fought on the barricade at the crossroads of Boulevard Saint-Michel and Boulevard Saint-Germain. On August 18, Lieutenant Sarran, head of the 5th sector for the FFI, requisitioned the high school to set up an ammunition depot there. The construction of numerous barricades on August 22 provoked the anger of
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, September 11, 2024

2. Guy Basseau Marker - wide view
the Germans. Guy Basseau was on a barricade on Boulevard Saint-Germain at the height of Rue de Bièvre. The Senate was a fortress occupied by the enemy with tanks against which the order was given to fight with the weapons available to the resistance, grenades and incendiary bottles.

Guy Basseau fell at the corner of rue de Bièvre (n° 33) and boulevard Saint-Germain. According to the death certificate drawn up on 23 August 1944 on the declaration of his father, aged 62, he died at his home on 22 August at nine o'clock….

He was cited in the order of the army corps by decision of General Koenig, head of the FFI general staff, dated 29 January 1945.

He was awarded the mention "Mort pour la France" by decision of the Minister of Veterans Affairs dated 24 April 1947 and was approved as a soldier of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI).

He was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance (decree of 29 November 1946 and published in the Official Journal on 8 December 1946).

(Submitted on October 6, 2024.)

Credits. This page was last revised on October 6, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 6, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 239 times since then and 38 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on October 6, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.