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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yves Farge (19 August 1899, Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhne - 31 March 1953, Tbilisi) was a French journalist and politician. Farge was a journalist for the Progrs de Lyon. His colleague, Georges Altman, put him in contact with the French Resistance movement Franc-tireur. In 1942, Farge met Jean Moulin. Farge was but in charge of the military organization of the massif du Vercors. He was also a member of the l'tat-major directed by General Delestraint. After the arrest of those two prominent resistance figures, Farge was sought by the Gestapo and went to Paris, where he presided over the Comit d'action contre la dportation. General Charles de Gaulle named Farge commissaire de la Rpublique for the departements of la rgion rhodanienne. Farge saved 800 hostages who were at risk of being shot at Fort Montluc in Lyon.

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