Bernard de Chalvron

Bernard de Chalvron (Bernard Guillier de Chalvron) was a French diplomat, political advisor and member of the French Resistance during World War II.[1]

Bernard de Chalvron in 1970

Career

Bernard de Chalvon was a diplomat.[2] He had royalist tendencies.[2]

In the early 1940s, he served as a political advisor on French Algeria to Marshal Philippe Pétain.[3] He was later replaced by Jacques Tiné.[3]

In 1942, he joined the Noyautage des administrations publiques of the French Resistance.[2] After its founder, Claude Bourdet, was arrested, de Chalvron served as its President.[2] He gave copies of reports of meetings conducted by the Vichy government to the United States embassy in Paris, including information about the treatment of Jews.[1] He was arrested and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in May 1944.[1][2] He was liberated by the Americans in 1945.[1]

Personal life

His son, Alain de Chalvron, is a political journalist.

References
  1. EPELBAUM, Didier. "Itinéraire de Bernard de Chalvron, diplomate et chargé de mission à Vichy. Un anti-Papon". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  2. Epstein, Simon (2010-04-14). Un paradoxe français: Antiraciste dans la Collaboration, antisémites dans la Résistance (in French). ALBIN MICHEL. ISBN 978-2-226-21348-8.
  3. Cotillon, Jérôme (2004). "L'Empire français dans la Révolution Nationale : l'exemple de la vision algérienne des entourages du maréchal Pétain (1940- 1942)". Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire. 91 (342): 41–50. doi:10.3406/outre.2004.4081.
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