14th Arrondissement in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe

Frédo Serazin

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 27, 2024

1. Frédo Serazin Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

Ici habitait
Frédo Serazin
Héros de la Résistance
Mort pour la France
Assassiné par la milice
le 15 juin 1944
à Saint-Etienne

(Here lived Frédo Serazin - Hero of the Resistance, Died for France. Assassinated by the militia on June 15, 1944 in Saint-Etienne.)

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II. A significant historical year for this entry is 1944.

Location. 48° 49.326′ N, 2° 19.749′ E. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in 14th Arrondissement. It is at the intersection of Rue Monticelli and Boulevard Jourdan, on the right when traveling north on Rue Monticelli. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1 Rue Monticelli, Paris, Île-de-France 75014, 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 markers are within walking distance

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of this marker: France Bloch-Serazin (here, next to this marker); Lt. E. Laurent Memorial (about 120 meters away, measured in a direct line); Roger Bauduin de Belleval (about 120 meters away); Gustave Pommier (about 240 meters away); Charles Le Goffic (approx. 0.2 kilometers away); Vladimir Ilitch Lénine / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (approx. 0.2 kilometers away); Auguste Mauclerc (approx. 0.3 kilometers away); Louis Brelivet (approx. 0.3 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.

Also see . . . Plaque en hommage au résistant Frédo Bloch (Musée de la Résistance en ligne, in French). Excerpt (in translation):

…Appointed at the beginning of 1944, by the management of the Southern zone of the underground PCF, as manager for the Loire department, he met in particular Joseph Piot who testified: "He was a man of average height, regular features, dark brown hair, dark clothing. The appearance of a liberal professional, a civil servant or a businessman. Smiling, relaxed, his clear and precise language was that of a cultivated man. (...) I knew him under the name of "Jean". " On June 15, 1944, "while he had an
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 27, 2024

2. Frédo Serazin Marker - wide view
The marker is visible here just to the right of the one for his wife, France Bloch-Serazin.
appointment near the SCEMM" he was taken by the Militia and the Gestapo in Saint-Étienne and tortured. "There are a few dozen of us activists who owe our lives and freedom to his extraordinary sacrifice." After executing him the next day with a bullet to the head, his torturers abandoned his body on the public highway, in front of the Gestapo headquarters in Saint-Étienne. He was buried on June 22, 1944 in the Côte-Chaude cemetery (Saint-Étienne) under the name of Jean-Marie Boulan, according to what his false papers indicated.

Exhumed on June 21, 1946, his remains were transferred to the military square of the Montmartre cemetery in Saint-Étienne and then buried in the Parisian cemetery of Bagneux on October 13, 1949.

(Submitted on March 8, 2025.)

Frédo Serazin Marker - wider view image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 27, 2024

3. Frédo Serazin Marker - wider view

Credits. This page was last revised on April 8, 2025. It was originally submitted on March 8, 2025, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 127 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on March 8, 2025, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.