Le Port de la Roche
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Monument to the Resistance fighters who guarded the Vilaine bridge:
Armand Jolivel,
Auguste Guérin, aged 30.
Jean Baptiste Lebreton, aged 19.
Jules Lefreche, age 27.
Gabriel Nevou, 22.
Jean Lepere, 15 years old.
Célestin Poulain, aged 26.
Maurice Blanchard, aged 38.
Maurice Cendre killed by a German column during the fight to cross the bridge on August 6, 1944.
Three other names are on the monument:
Pierre Porcher, aged 20, shot at Angers,
Jean Baptiste Rimbaude
Pierre Baudu deported.
Contribution and photo credit Le Bourvellec Eric
