Disappearance Macron pays tribute to Lyonnais Jean Isaac-Tresca, last resistant of the Glières maquis


Emmanuel Macron paid tribute this Wednesday to Jean Isaac-Tresca, the last of the resistance fighters who fought in the Glières maquis, in the Alps, during the Second World War, who died Sunday at 104 years old. Born in 1918 in Lyon, he had fought on this remote plateau, located in the Bornes massif at an altitude of 1,450 meters, which had become a symbolic high place of the Resistance.

“Live free or die, that was the motto of the resistance fighters of the Glières maquis. Jean Isaac-Tresca was the last of them”, reacted the head of state, in a press release from the Elysée.

He said no to the occupier, yes to the honor of France. His legacy will live. Always, we will rekindle the flame of the Resistance.

“Pasquier”, in “the frontality of the fights”

Jean Isaac-Tresca was one of the 460 soldiers of the 27th battalion of Alpine hunters from Annecy, men of the Secret Army, refractory to the STO, communists, snipers and partisans or Spanish republicans, to settle there at the winter 1944, recalls the Elysée.

“Under the pseudonym of Pasquier, Jean Isaac-Tresca no longer acts as a shadow, in the anonymity of nocturnal sabotage and guerrilla warfare, but with an open face, in the frontality of the fighting”, adds the presidency in its press release.

Engineer, he lived for a long time in Japan

“Faced with an enemy ten times more numerous”, the resistance fighters “fought valiantly until March 26 when, surrounded, they sounded the withdrawal and separated to better slip through the narrow meshes of the enemy net”. 129 of them perished while others were captured, tortured, deported.

After the war, Jean Isaac-Tresca became an engineer and lived for a long time in Japan. On March 31, 2019, Emmanuel Macron commemorated, with former President Nicolas Sarkozy, the 75th anniversary of the fighting on the Glières plateau at the national cemetery of Morette, in Thônes (Haute-Savoie).



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