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France mourns loss of another WWII resistance hero
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One of three remaining fighters in the French resistance to the Nazi occupation of World War II has died, President Emmanuel Macron's office said Friday, hailing a "hero" who was just 17 when he joined the fight to free France. Pierre Simonet, who died Thursday aged 99, was one of just over a thousand resistance fighters decorated by Charles de Gaulle, who rallied the defeated French forces from London after Germany's 1940 invasion of the country. His death comes just a few months after that of another wartime hero, Edgard Tupet-Thome, leaving just two men as living links to one of the most wrenching chapters in France's history. "The president honours the life of this man driven by the lo

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