Aimé Lepercq

Aimé Marie Antoine Lepercq (Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or (Rhône département) September 2, 1889 - November 9, 1944) was a French soldier, industrialist and political figure.

The eldest of nine children, he graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1911. He fought in World War I, in which he was wounded three times and decorated for valor five times. After the war, he became an administrator of industrial properties for the Schneider company in Czechoslovakia. At the outbreak of World War II, Lepercq fought in the artillery, and continued to fight despite orders no longer to do so, until the actual armistice on June 25, 1940. After a brief internment by the Germans, he returned to civil life as an industrial administrator, but was fired in 1943 for speaking out against the collaborationist government in France regarding their continuing deportations to German labor camps; and from then on he became an active member of the French Resistance. In post-liberation France he was selected by De Gaulle as minister of finances, but died soon after in a car accident near Lille. He is buried at Batignolles cemetery in Paris.

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