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Maquis des trois chevaux

It was here, in the spring of 1943, that Georges Guingouin and a handful of companions went underground...

Georges Guingouin, born on February 2, 1913 in Magnac-Laval, Haute-Vienne, and died on October 27, 2005 in Troyes, was a French Resistance fighter and Communist activist.

In January 1941, he published the first issue of Travailleur limousin, a clandestine journal. He later wrote that he refrained from any attacks on de Gaulle and the United Kingdom, deviating from the official Communist Party line. In February 1941, he narrowly escaped the police inspectors who had come to arrest him at his home. In April 1941, on learning that he was wanted again in Haute-Vienne, he left the department and went underground in Corrèze at "Les Plaines" in Soudaine-Lavinadière, living one day with a comrade who lived in an isolated house with his two daughters, or another day in forest huts made of logs, or in uninhabited houses, or even in underground passages known to him. Living conditions were harsh. He organizes mass distributions of leaflets, which he writes and prints with his Moneo, and distributes them at regional fairs. He even obtains a false identity, that of a nephew of the Communist comrade with whom he lives, André Dupuy, who left the region at the age of nine, remembering that he has two sisters.
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