Political and military figures of World War II. Adrien Conus. “Compagnon de la Libération”. Moscow/1900-Bangui/1947. From the Free French battles to the indochina war: a singular and archetypal itinerary of a special soldier.
Author: Servent, Pierre
Sous la direction de : Xavier Boniface
University of Picardy Jules Verne
Texte français
Keywords: History, Indochina, Adrien Conus, Free French, Bir-Hakeim, BCRA/Gaullist secret service, Compagnon de la libération, Indochina.
Abstract
From a work on French and English primary sources (Files from French and British Secret Services, French historical services of Defense and archives from the French Museum of the “Compagnons de la Libération”), this doctoral thesis is a biography of the Free French Adrien Conus (1900-1947). The thesis aims to recount, to contextualize, and to analyze step by step the out-of-ordinary trajectory of one of the 1038 Free French, De Gaulle’s companion : Adrien Conus, born in Moscow (Russia) in 1900, deceased in Bangui (Central Africa) in 1947. The life journey of a “Russian”, friend of Jospeh Kessel, of this warrior and secret agent of the Free France was so dense and intense that it well deserves to be classified as exceptional and out-of-the-ordinary. From battles in Syria, Libya and Tunisia to his engagement on the field (Vercors and Nazi Germany) as a Gaullist secret agent trained by the British services, Adrien Conus presents a kaleidoscope of what were the battles of Free French, the Fighting French against nazism in a version that could be labelled nowadays as “special operations”. One of the key research angles of this doctorate deals with history of mentalities, at least the history of those informal soldiers of the Second World War who sometimes knew that kind of evolution like “Captain Conan”, the hero of Roger Vercel’s novel. This is one of the documents, with the biography of Rudolf Hess, which makes up the file of the thesis on works One of the key research angles of this doctorate deals with history of mentalities, at least the history of those informal soldiers of the Second World War who sometimes knew that kind of evolution like “Captain Conan”, the hero of Roger Vercel’s novel. This is one of the documents, with the biography of Rudolf Hess, which makes up the file of the thesis on works.
