« Guy Môquet, une enfance fusillée, et les jeunes en Résistance »

This exhibition, organised by the Sarte Committee for Remembrance, offers an overview of the role played by young people in the Resistance, as exemplified by Guy Môquet.

Organised by the Sarthois Remembrance Committee, in partnership with the Châteaubriant Resistance Museum.

This exhibition offers an overview of the activities of young people in the Resistance, highlighting their distinctive characteristics, such as their involvement in all forms of resistance.

It is illustrated by the story of the young Guy Môquet, who was shot at the Châteaubriant quarry on 22 October 1941. He was one of 27 hostages selected by the French Minister of the Interior of the collaborationist Vichy government, ‘Pierre Pucheux’. Guy Môquet was a sixth-former in Paris; he had been arrested for distributing leaflets against the occupying forces and had been interned at the Choisel camp in Châteaubriant. He was young but already an activist, like his father Prosper Môquet, a Communist MP who was already imprisoned at the Fort de Maison Carrée in Algiers.

The exhibition is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 1.00 pm to 5.30 pm.