1920-1944
In 1944, André Le Bourblanc lives with his parents
in the building called « Le Trocadéro » at 97 Grande Rue. He his
working with the Versailles Company for gas
distribution, which allows him to escape the STO system (compulsory work in
Germany). He soon enters the network of Resistance
and becomes responsible for a local group (Noisy le Roi, Saint-Cyr l’Ecole,
Les Clayes sous Bois) which is mainly involved in taking care of allied soldiers,
paratroopers or pilots who fell in France, and to arrange their trip to England.
In August 1944, the German Gestapo identifies this group, with many people
arrested in Les Clayes and in Saint-Cyr from where Pierre Roussel was later
deported to Buchenwald.
André Le Bourblanc is likely informed of these
arrests and knows that Gestapo is in
Noisy. He rushes to destroy all his documents, but a car is already stopping
in front of his home. Two men in civilian clothes climbed to his floor and
sentence him, in French, to open the door. He refuses, and they shoot across
the door, injuring him in the stomach. They rush back to the street, stop
a truck of German soldiers and ask them to surround the home and the garden.
André Le Bourblanc is very seriously injured but
he tries to escape, using the water drains. He falls in the garden and his
shot again. Father Zeller, priest of Noisy le Roi, who has been informed,
arrives immediately, but can only help him to die. His corpse his brought
back in his parents home, and he will be buried two or three days later.
Noisy le Roi will be liberated in August 25th;
and Marcel Le Bourblanc, André’s father will be nominated as Mayor by the Liberation Committee. In September
17th 1944, during a ceremony dedicated to the memory of this young
resistant, two plates were installed, one on his home, the other near the
gate of the garden rue de l’Abreuvoir, where he was killed.
His name was given to the Grande Rue
of Noisy le Roi
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