The document states he was incarcerated "for having given shelter to youths resisting S.T.O. (compulsory labor service) and for having not denounced the young Israëlites that he adopted, often under false identity, after the deportation or 'disappearance' of their parents." Click to read in full.

Here is a letter from De Gaulle to him after the war. I'll try to translate that later!

René was educated in Republican public schools and valued freedom of speech. He was a Republican and probably an anarchist in his teens and fought with the "whites" in Russia in WWI. There was a copy of his Alfred Jarry Père Ubu book next to his First Luitenant Kepi.

Translating the postwar POW circular run for former cellmates of a prison called the Mal Coiffee smack on the German occupation borderline. My great-grandfather Pierre René was arrested and put in room 7 in 1943 for refusing to "out" French Jews in hiding.

niche VCU meme

Me wearing the "Fuck You You Fucking Fuck" shirt over the span of ten years

one of my favorite shirts I have

me eating black licorice
by Brandon aka Alleder

The Sentinel (1977)