Commitment and Resistance: Tribute to Jacques Bingen

After completing his military service, he joined his brother-in-law André Citroën at Usines Citroën, and after the latter’s death in 1935, became director of the Société Anonyme de Gérance et d’Armement (SAGA), a shipping company. Mobilized in 1939 and wounded in action, he managed to join de Gaulle in London in July 1940. He was entrusted with the management of the Free French Merchant Navy until July 1942, when he joined the Bureau Central de Renseignements et d’Action (BACRA) to “serve dangerously”. From December 1943 to April 1944, he was Jean Moulin’s contact and successor in unifying the Resistance movements as Délégué Général pour la Résistance (General Delegate for the Resistance). Arrested by the Gestapo in June 1944, escaped and recaptured, he would rather commit suicide than risk speaking out.

In addition to this eminent figure, the event will also feature an exhibition produced by the Mines Paris – PSL library, retracing the history of the École during this period: teaching and research in an establishment partially occupied by the German army for four years – one of the last places liberated in the capital after intense fighting – and portraits of students, former students and staff involved in the Resistance and/or victims of the Occupation.

Program :

• 6 pm – 7:30 pm, Henri Poincaré amphitheater:
• Round table discussion moderated by Frédéric Mathieu, member of the Mines Paris Alumni Board of Directors, in charge of historical and heritage issues, with :
• Philippe Citroën: former company director, grand-nephew of Jacques Bingen and grandson of André-Citroën, member of Jacques Bingen’s family, who this year transferred Bingen’s private archives to the French National Archives.
• Patricia Gillet: General Curator of Heritage, head of the “World Wars” section at the Archives nationales, Executive and Legislative Department.
• Joseph Zimet, historian, senior civil servant, prefect, author of the first biography of Jacques Bingen, currently being written, and previously in charge of organizing the centenary of the 1st World War.

• 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, Carreau:
• Cocktail reception and presentation of the exhibition “L’École des mines de Paris, 39-45, Engagement et Résistance” (Paris School of Mines, 39-45, Commitment and Resistance), a tour of World War II memorials at the École (bust of Jacques Bingen, war memorial, display cases of École decorations and original documents, boulevard facade bearing the impact of the Liberation battles).

Registration

This event has been awarded the LABEL MISSION LIBÉRATION by the French government.

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