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Christian Pineau
Christian Pineau (; 14 October 1904, in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France – 5 April 1995, in Paris) was a noted French Resistance fighter, who later served an important term as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the late 1950s.
Pineau was born in 1904 in Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France. His stepfather was the writer Jean Giraudoux, who was married to Pineau's mother. Later, Christian Pineau would say that it was Giraudoux who gave
ouvrière (SFIO), Libération-Nord was formed around Christian Pineau and the team of the "Manifeste des douze". The movement was not entirely socialist but the leadership was socialist.
In 1942, two resistance networks were created from within Libération-Nord under the command of the Bureau central de renseignements et d'action:
- Phalanx in the "zone Sud", created by Christian Pineau
- Cohors-Asturies in the "zone Nord".
In early 1943 Libération-Nord began to organise armed groups