Marie-France Theulot
enseignante
Marie-France Theulot is a teacher. She is the daughter and granddaughter of Juste.
Retired teacher and author, Marie-France Theulot intervenes to inform new generations, recall the destiny of people victims of war, racism, denunciation.
She explains that sometimes disobedience is an act of courage: «I couldn’t stand the fate of children», Lazare and Étienne Moulin of Lyon assure. Marie-France Theulot traces with photos, the portraits of these people who resisted orders, Fanny, Georgette, Maurice, Joël, who hid Rosette in the countryside, this medical student, the prefect Jacques Bories, a Breton woman married to a sailor, who chose not to follow the convictions of his spouse, Monsignor Salièges, author of a pastoral letter that marked consciences… She evokes Juliette Bazille and this piano teacher she admired, Germaine Albert, Louis and André Grouillot de Navilly, in Saône-et-Loire, this 8-year-old girl who hides an exhausted man, Léon Bronchart, one of the few train drivers who refused to drive a train of deportees.
She puts a face and a story on the faces of almost forgotten photos, mentions the figure of 70,000 deportees in France.