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[[File:Lucie Aubrac 2001.jpg|thumb|left|Lucie Aubrac in 2001]]
'''Lucie Aubrac''' (1912-2007; died age 94), born '''Lucie Bernard''', was a noted member of the [[French Resistance]].<ref name="nytimes2007">{{cite news|author=By DOUGLAS MARTINMARCH 18, 2007 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/world/europe/18aubrac.html |title=Lucie Aubrac, Hero of French Resistance, Dies at 94 - The New York Times |publisher=Nytimes.com |date=2007-03-18 |accessdate=2018-01-15}}</ref>
In 1938 she earned an [[agrégation]] of history, and in 1939 she married Raymond Samuel.<ref name="theguardian2007">{{cite web|author=Julian Jackson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/16/guardianobituaries.france |title=Obituary: Lucie Aubrac | World news |publisher=The Guardian |date= |accessdate=2018-01-15}}</ref>
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In 1984 she published a semi-fictional version of her wartime diaries, the English translation of which is known as ''Outwitting the Gestapo''.<ref name="nytimes2007"/> She was inspired to publish her own writing on the wartime after [[Klaus Barbie]]'s claim that her husband Raymond had become an informer and betrayed [[Jean Moulin]] after his own arrest.<ref name="theguardian2007"/>
The 1992 film [[:fr:Boulevard des hirondelles|<span style="color:teal">Boulevard des hirondelles</span>]] (1992),
In 1996 Lucie was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government for her heroism during World War II.<ref name=voices>{{cite web|url=http://voiceseducation.org/content/lucie-aubrac-resistance-hero|title=Lucie Aubrac: A Resistance Hero {{!}} Voices Education Project|website=voiceseducation.org|access-date=4 June 2016}}</ref>
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Twenty leading resistance survivors published a letter protesting the accusations against the Aubracs, and the Aubracs themselves asked to appear before a panel of leading French historians.<ref name="theguardian2007"/> The Aubracs did appear in a discussion between themselves and such historians, organized by the newspaper "Libération".<ref name="theguardian2007"/> While none of the historians involved believed that Raymond was an informer, they did note inconsistencies in Lucie's account of his case.<ref name="theguardian2007"/>
[[Patrick Marnham]]'s biography of Moulin, ''The Death of [[Jean Moulin]]: Biography of a Ghost'' (2001) also suggests Raymond and possibly Lucie betrayed [[Jean Moulin]].<ref>Marnham, Patrick. ''The Death of [[Jean Moulin]]: Biography of a Ghost.'' Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-7126-6584-1.</ref> As well, in his book ''Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance (2002)'', [[Patrick Marnham]] suggested that since Raymond Aubrac's overriding allegiance was to communism, he would not have considered himself a traitor if he had indeed betrayed Moulin, claiming that French Communists such as the Aubracs at times gave non-Communists such as Moulin to the Gestapo.<ref name="Raymond Aubrac">{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9198381/Raymond-Aubrac.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Raymond Aubrac | date=11 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="independent1"/>ref>http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/comment/obituaries/raymond-aubrac.2012041676?_=86fd6d23ad14e9a4158cf5a1bec6c1882b45b29f</ref>
Lucie had three children with Raymond.<ref name="independent1"/> [[Charles de Gaulle]] was godfather to their first child, Catherine, and [[Ho Chi Minh]] was godfather to their second child, Elizabeth.<ref name="independent1"/>
President [[Nicolas Sarkozy]], in a statement after Raymond's death, said that Raymond's 1943 escape from the Nazis had "become a legend in the history of the Resistance" and praised him and all Resistance members as "heroes of the shadows who saved France's honor, at a time when it seemed lost."<ref name="Associated Press">{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAMzK238si_o4R39ZkUFluMSnGUQ?docId=bc52128b4911414693f09e1559e5606a|title=French Resistance figure Raymond Aubrac dead at 97|publisher=Associated Press}}</ref> [[Serge and Beate Klarsfeld|Serge Klarsfeld]], the president of the [[Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France]], said to BFM-TV, "They (Raymond and Lucie Aubrac) were a legendary couple," adding, "They were exceptional people."<ref>http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Raymond+Aubrac+Former+leader+French+Resistance/6461742/story.html#ixzz1sA2Ukl5A{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[François Hollande]] said in a statement, "In our darkest times, he [Raymond] was, with Lucie Aubrac, among the righteous, who found, in themselves and in the universal values of our Republic, the strength to resist Nazi barbarism."<ref>http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/french_reisistance_fighter_raymond_aubrac_dies_20120412</ref>
Raymond's ashes were eventually put beside hers in the family tomb of the cemetery in the [[Burgundy (French region)|Burgundian]] village of [[Salornay-sur-Guye]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j5TE2uQgB4Hpu9fgCFhOrr-47RTg?docId=CNG.b021632722104887dde882b4dc28b28c.131|title=Hommage républicain au résistant Raymond Aubrac, "flambeau de la justice et de l'espérance"|publisher=AFP}}</ref>
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