Victor Dillard (1897–1945) was a French Jesuit, a hero of the French Resistance during World War II, He attempted to organize the French compulsory workers deported to Germany, but was arrested and died in Dachau.

Victor-Dillard

Victor Dillard came from a bourgeois family from Blois , among a family of ten children (seven sons), including Robert (1889-1968, polytechnician , student at the naval school, future rear admiral ), Pierre (1891-1915, died for France , studied at the naval school like his brother. Another of his brothers, Étienne Dillard, is the father of the singer Françoise Hardy.[1]

Works edit

  • Victor Dillard, Lettres du prisonnier inconnu, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Le monde ouvrier, 1941
  • Victor Dillard, Suprêmes témoignages, Paris, Spes, coll. « Action populaire  », 1945

Further reading edit

  • Robert Dillard, La vie et la mort du R.P. Dillard, Les œuvres françaises, 1947
  • Philippe Verrier (postface Charles Molette), Le P. Victor Dillard, jésuite, mort à Dachau en 1945, "L'un des cinquante", Magny-les-Hameaux, Socéval Éditions/Artège, juillet 2005
  • Jean-Marie Mayer/Yves-Marie Hilaire: Dictionnaire du Monde religieux dans la France Contemporaine. Paris 1985, p. 95

References edit

  1. ^ Quinonero, Frédéric (2017-04-19). Françoise Hardy, un long chant d'amour (in French). L'Archipel. ISBN 978-2-8098-2226-7.

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