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Germaine Tillion, née le 30 mai 1907 à Allègre (Haute-Loire) et morte le 19 avril 2008 à Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne), est une résistante et ethnologue française.. Titulaire de nombreuses décorations pour ses actes héroïques durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est en 1999 la deuxième Française à devenir grand-croix de la Légion d'honneur après Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz.
Born at Allègre (Haute-Loire) on May 30, 1907; daughter of Lucien Tillion (d. 1925, a magistrate) and Émilie (Cussac) Tillion (1875–1945, an art historian); educated at the Lycée Jeanne-d'Arc in Clermont-Ferrand and the Institut d'Ethnologie (Sorbonne).
Germaine Tillion (1907-2008) Interred at the Panthéon on 27 May 2015, Germaine Tillion was an ethnologist at the Musée de l’Homme and a pioneer of the French Resistance.
Germaine Tillion, who died in April 2008 at the age of 100, joined the Resistance in 1940, eventually becoming one of the leading members of the Groupe du Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Man Network), a group of anti-Nazi intellectuals and academics.
Oct 1, 2005 · Germaine Tillion is the absent presence of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966). Reintroducing Tillion opens up this film by revealing decisions made and debates engaged in during its construction and reception.
- Donald Reid
- 2005
A leading figure in the French Resistance, an ethnologist and writer, Germaine Tillion drew lessons from her experience of World War II that served her throughout her entire life. At all times she managed to combine testimony, reflection and action.
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Apr 20, 2008 · PARIS — Germaine Tillion, a French Resistance fighter during World War II and celebrated anthropologist, died Saturday, her association said. She was 100.
