Heroes of the Resistance

Heroes of the Resistance was a set of stamps issued from 1957 to 1961 by La Poste, commemorating 27 members of the French Resistance who died during the Occupation between 1940 and 1945 (apart from Edmond Debeaumarché, who died in 1959). Of the 26, two are Catholic monks and nuns and three are women.

List of commemorated persons

 * 1) Jean Moulin (1899-1943)
 * 2) D'Estienne d'Orves (1901-1941)
 * 3) Robert Keller (1899-1945)
 * 4) Pierre Brossolette (1903-1944)
 * 5) Jean-Baptiste Lebas (1878-1944)
 * 6) Jean Cavailles (1903-1944)
 * 7) Fred Scamaroni (1914-1943)
 * 8) Simone Michel-Levy (1906-1945)
 * 9) Jacques Bingen (1908-1944)
 * 10) Jean-Marie Arthus (1925-1943)
 * 11) Jacques Baudry (1922-1943)
 * 12) Pierre Benoit (1925-1943)
 * 13) Pierre Grelot (1923-1943)
 * 14) Lucien Legros (1924-1943)
 * 15) Yvonne Le Roux (1882-1945)
 * 16) Mederic Vedy (1902-1944)
 * 17) Louis Martin-Bret (1898-1944)
 * 18) Gaston Moutardier (1889-1944)
 * 19) Edmond Debeaumarché (1906-1959)
 * 20) Pierre Masse (1879-1942)
 * 21) Maurice Ripoche (1895-1944)
 * 22) Leonce Vieljeux(1865-1944)
 * 23) Rene Bonpain (1908-1943)
 * 24) Jacques Renouvin (1905-1944)
 * 25) Lionel Dubray (1923-1944)
 * 26) Paul Gateaud (1889-1944)
 * 27) Mother Elizabeth (1890-1945)