Luc Gaudin (died 1940) was a French author and French Resistance leader during World War II.
Biography[]
Luc Gaudin was born in Paris to a wealthy family, and he was a celebrated author during the Interwar period. However, when the Germans occupied France in 1940 during World War II, the Nazi Party deemed his works subversive and burned his books and confiscated his property. Gaudin was left with nothing, and he decided to join the French Resistance. He became the head of the Resistance in Paris in the autumn of 1940, and, with the help of Sean Devlin, he was able to inspire the Parisians to rally behind the Resistance and fight back against the Germans. Devlin did all of the dirty work himself, while Gaudin planned out the liberation of the city. He masterminded a plan to wipe out several high-ranking Nazis with a bomb-rigged racecar at a German racing event, but the Nazis retaliated by destroying La Belle du Nuit and killing the parents of Gaudin's lover Veronique Rousseau. The Resistance members were forced into the catacombs, where they were assaulted by the Germans. Gaudin was trapped underneath boulders during the assault, and he forced Veronique to kill him so that he would not be captured by the Germans and interrogated.