WWII ENGLISH SOLDIER'S HELMET worn by Resistance fighter Mau - Lot 449

WWII ENGLISH SOLDIER'S HELMET worn by Resistance fighter Maurice Schumann (1911-1998) during the Allied landings in Normandy. Provenance: by descent. Biography: Maurice Schumann (1911-1998), French politician, journalist and writer, joined General de Gaulle in London in June 1940, becoming spokesman for the Free French. He was its voice on Radio Londres throughout the conflict. A loyal Gaullist, Christian democrat and convinced European, he was one of the founders of the Mouvement républicain populaire, of which he was the first president. A member of parliament for the Nord region for thirty years, then a senator for fifteen, he was appointed Minister of State several times in Georges Pompidou's governments, ending his governmental career as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1969-1973). He was elected to the Académie française in 1974.