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The French Second World War resistance fighter Daniel Cordier, who parlayed his wartime experiences into a career as a collector and art dealer, has died at age 100. Revered in the country’s cultural ...

Cordier was one of only two remaining Compagnons de la Libération, a group of 1038 people who had put their lives in danger to free France from the occupation, and were later given the title by ...

"Daniel Cordier is 100 today. He was only twenty when, alongside Jean Moulin, he took many risks so that we would live freely," wrote French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Twitter. "Today, let us ...

A picture of Jean Moulin sat on Daniel Cordier's bookshelf at his home on the French Riviera French Resistance figure Daniel Cordier - who has died at the age of 100 - was one of the last remaining ...

Daniel Cordier eventually wrote a biography of Moulin (pictured) - the man he served for the final year of the Resistance leader's life When Daniel Cordier was parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to ...

The early life of Daniel Cordier reads like something out of a John le Carré thriller: soldier, spy, resistance hero, art dealer. After parachuting into Nazi-occupied France in 1942 aged 22 on the ...

A picture of Jean Moulin sat on Daniel Cordier's bookshelf at his home on the French Riviera French Resistance figure Daniel Cordier - who has died at the age of 100 - was one of the last remaining ...

When Daniel Cordier was parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to meet Resistance leader Jean Moulin he had no idea he would become Moulin's closest companion. Cordier was sent over in July 1942 on the ...