Missak Manouchian (a French anti-fascist of Armenian descent, communist, and prominent figure in the French Resistance) and his wife moved to Paris in 1925, where he became a general laborer before joining the French Communist Party in 1940.
He acquired education there and in 1925 moved to France. Eventually, Manouchian settled in Paris, where he took a job as a lathe operator at a Citroen plant. 
