Raymond Aubrac, one of the last major figures of the French Resistance during the second World War, has died at the age of 97.
His family said he died in the Val-de-Grace military hospital in Paris yesterday. His granddaughter, Helene Helfer Aubrac, said her grandfather had recently been admitted to hospital after suffering from fatigue.
Raymond Aubrac, who was Jewish and whose birth name was Raymond Samuel, helped set up Liberation-Sud (Liberation South) - one of the first networks of the Resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.
An engineer with leftist leanings, he and his wife, Lucie Aubrac, who died in 2007 aged 94, worked together in the Resistance.
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His parents died in Auschwitz.
AP