Brigitte Friang | |
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Born | Paris, French | 23 January 1924
Died | 6 March 2011 | (aged 87)
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Nationality | French |
Brigitte Friang (23 January 1924 – 6 March 2011) was a French journalist, writer and French Resistance member. [1]
Friang was born in Paris in 1924 and immediately after leaving school in Paris in 1943 joined the French Resistance. [2] Working in the same group as Colonel F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, she was captured by the Gestapo, shot while trying to escape, then taken to Fresnes Prison and tortured, before being deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp. [2] [3]
After the war, Friang was liberated and returned to Paris where she worked for four years as a press aide to André Malraux, before becoming a journalist. [2] In 1953, she was sent to French Indochina as a war correspondent. [3] [4] There she undertook parachute training and was dropped, in the opening hours of Operation Castor, into Điện Biên Province, in the north-west corner of Vietnam. [3] [5] She made several combat jumps including one with Lt Col Bigeard's 6th Colonial Paratroop Battalion at Tu-Le after which she accompanied the 6th on their retreat to French lines. [3] [6] She survived the war and returned to Paris where she worked as a writer and journalist until her retirement.
On 6 June 1954, she appeared as a challenger on the TV panel show What's My Line? (the mystery guests for that episode were George Burns and Gracie Allen).
Friang died 6 March 2011 at the age of 87.
Brigitte Friang | |
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Born | Paris, French | 23 January 1924
Died | 6 March 2011 | (aged 87)
Occupation |
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Nationality | French |
Brigitte Friang (23 January 1924 – 6 March 2011) was a French journalist, writer and French Resistance member. [1]
Friang was born in Paris in 1924 and immediately after leaving school in Paris in 1943 joined the French Resistance. [2] Working in the same group as Colonel F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas, she was captured by the Gestapo, shot while trying to escape, then taken to Fresnes Prison and tortured, before being deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp. [2] [3]
After the war, Friang was liberated and returned to Paris where she worked for four years as a press aide to André Malraux, before becoming a journalist. [2] In 1953, she was sent to French Indochina as a war correspondent. [3] [4] There she undertook parachute training and was dropped, in the opening hours of Operation Castor, into Điện Biên Province, in the north-west corner of Vietnam. [3] [5] She made several combat jumps including one with Lt Col Bigeard's 6th Colonial Paratroop Battalion at Tu-Le after which she accompanied the 6th on their retreat to French lines. [3] [6] She survived the war and returned to Paris where she worked as a writer and journalist until her retirement.
On 6 June 1954, she appeared as a challenger on the TV panel show What's My Line? (the mystery guests for that episode were George Burns and Gracie Allen).
Friang died 6 March 2011 at the age of 87.