Pierre Brossolette

Pierre Brossolette

Pierre Brossolette (25 June 1903 – 22 March 1944) was a French journalist, politician and major hero of the French Resistance in World War II. Brossolette ran an intelligence hub of Parisian resistance from a bookshop on rue de la Pompe, before serving as a liaison officer in London, where he also was a radio anchor for the BBC, and carried out three clandestine missions in France. Arrested in Brittany as he was trying to reach the UK on a mission back from France alongside Émile Bollaert, Brossolette was taken into custody by the Sicherheitsdienst (the security service of the SS). He committed suicide by jumping out of a window at their headquarters on 84 Avenue Foch in Paris as he feared he would reveal the lengths of French Resistance networks under torture; he died of his wounds at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital later that day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Brossolette has received more than 100,948 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Brossolette is the 65th most popular journalist, the 3,833rd most popular biography from France and the 9th most popular French Journalist.