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Lucie Aubrac can be considered like the female

symbol of French resistance during the world

war II.

� Born the 29 June 1912 in Paris, and died on

March 14, 2007 in Issy-les-Moulineaux,

Lucie Aubrac by her true name Lucie Samuel;

shevwas raised by a family of wine producer.

She was a bright student but with a rebellious

temper because she refused to wear the

uniform of her boarding school and moved

to Paris for finally work as a dishwasher.

• During this period she met a lot of person especially

communists and she agreed with their ideas. She also met some

young people of many nationality like Poles, Hungarians, Germans

and Romanians who run away from there country because

of the authoritarian regime.

• But it's only in 1936, when she made a journey in Germany for the Olympics Games that she became aware of the true nature of their regimes authoritarians.

• After have been graduated from the Sorbonne, she became a professor and married Raymond Samuel in 1939. A few months later, the war was declared. The young married refused the defeat and they enter into the resistance. They change their last name for Aubrac.

• In June 1943, her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned. Lucie Aubracreact immediately and she decided help Samuel to escape during a transfer of prisoners. Her operation was a success. She also get away with some resistants who where the captive of Klaus Barbie in the same time.

• The two devoted lovers decided to fled France with their children for join London on February of 1944

• After the end of the war, the General de Gaulle gave her the mission to

establish the liberation committees.

• Even if she was clever, she stayed a professor instead of become a politician ;

but she always militate against injustice and violence. She was

particularly interested by the Algerian war. She was for the liberation of this country.

• She was still active until the end, because she makes a lot of conference and interviews also in schools

for talking about the resistance and her actions.

• She was rewarded with numerous medals including the greatest French distanctions, and la Légion

d‘Honneur.

• She also wrote two autobiographical books :"Ils partiront dans l'ivresse" (1984)

and "Cette exigeante liberté" (1997) but also a book destined for children which

concerns the resistance :"La résistance expliquée à mes petits enfants" (2000).

• Her life was explain in a movie called « Lucie Aubrac » by the realisator Claude

Berri in 1997. Earlier, her adventure inspired a

scenario of the movie : « Boulevard des hirondelles ».

• She died at the age of 94 year old and a beautiful tribute

was made by a several of French politicals with all the

respect she deserves.

• She is a Hero because she fight against oppression

during her whole life and she never gave up against

the enemy. Because of her rebellious mind, she was

full of courage and fearless. Until the end she

militates for liberation and the nonviolence.

Stephen

Hawking

Stephen

Hawking

Stephen Hawking is the most bright

scientific and author who had a

terrible disease called A.S.L

when he was 21.

During his life, Hawking looks

for lots of theories about

physical sciences, mathematics, astronomy

and all the subjects which deal with scientific subjects.

He inscribes him at Oxford. He wanted to follow

mathematics classe, but this option

wasn’t available in this university, so

decided to choose the usual

channels of chemistry.

During this period, he took an interest

On 1962, he got his diploma

«B.A» in Oxford. He worked

on the Philosophiæ doctor, on

the basic laws which govern the universe,

on theoritical cosmology and astronomy,

in Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems and especially in the theorywhich concerns the black holes all over the space. The Hawking radiation was a studied theory, deduce thanks to his arithmetics calculations and hisdevelop knowledges.

Even if he was a bright scientific, he wrote books too. His works was the best seller A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, and most recently in 2010, The Grand Design. He wrote with his daughter a book called George's Cosmic

Stephen Hawing receive a lot of medals, prizes and awards for his numerous researchs and hispersonality too. For one, his first reward was the Eddington Medal in 1975 and the last was deliver in 2009 it was the prize of

Presidential Medal of Freedom. All this rewards wasgiven to this special person, thanks to his knowledges,

made the progress in the scientific domain.

never gives up, even when he was knew it wasgoing to be difficult to lead a normal life. Now heloves living his live with his three childrens and his

In my opinion, Stephen Hawking issomeone who is totally incredible. Evenif he is paralyse because of his disease, he stay strong, and continue hisresearches. By the way he is one of the longest-living survivors of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: he is still alive whereas his disease appears when he was 21. Aged 71, this britishold man symbolize the courage. He has a spirit full of intelligence. For me, he is someone who deserve respect.

See better the magazine article :

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/2012/03

/29/stephen-hawking-receives-robert-

heinlein-memorial-award/