Jacques Trolley de Prévaux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJacques Trolley de Prévaux
French Navy officer, hero of the Resistance, Compagnon de la Libération
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Place of Birth: 7th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Jacques Trolley de Prévaux
- Jacques Marie Charles Trolley de Prévaux (Paris, 2 April 1888 — Bron, 19 August 1944) was a French Navy officer and member of the Resistance.
- After a brilliant career in the Navy as a pioneer of the Aéronavale and having risen to the rank of Captain, he fell out of favour with the Vichy Regime for his sympathies with the Resistance.
- He became a leader of an intelligence network focused on the Mediterranean, and was eventually betrayed and assassinated by the Nazis, along with his wife Lotka Leitner.
- Both were posthumously and jointly made Compagnons in the Ordre de la Libération.
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