
Father Denis (died 1942) was a French Roman Catholic priest and French Resistance leader during World War II. He served as a priest at Paris' St. Eustache Church before he was defrocked for preaching against the crimes committed by the German Nazis during their occupation of the city. Though Father Denis continued to hold religious services, he also became involved in the Resistance and, in 1942, worked with Sean Devlin to assassinate a Gestapo informant who attended his confessions, to bomb the German embassy in Paris, and to kill the Gestapo general Siegfried Albrecht at the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. As German reinforcements arrived at the park, Denis told Devlin to save himself as he held off the Germans with a submachine gun; he was likely killed in the ensuing firefight.