In a small park at Place Salvador Allende (7th arr.) there is a yellow Paris post office mailbox on which there are some portraits by C215 (aka Christian Guemy). Guemy has painted tributes to many people including some on other yellow post office boxes. The box pictured here is close to the Musee de l’Ordre de la Liberation (located in the Hotel National des Invalides) and features people seen in the museum who played a role in the French Resistance during WW2.

below: Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné (1913-1948) was an army officer in the French Foreign Legion. He died “in the line of duty” in Vietnam on 1st March 1948.

below: Marcelle Henry (1895-1945) was active in the Resistance during WW2 and is one of the six women recognized among the “Compagnons of the Liberation”. She was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and sentenced to death but spent the remaining months of the war in concentration camps. She lived to see freedom but died shortly after from the effects of her incarceration.

below: Simone Michel-Levy (1906-1945) was also a French Resistance worker. She had quite a few aliases including Emma, Françoise, Madame Royale, Mademoiselle Flaubert or Madame Bertrand. She too is one of the six women recognized among the “Compagnons of the Liberation”. She was arrested by the Gestapo in November 1943 and sent to a concentration camp. At the camp she help organize an uprising against the guards. She was hanged for this – 10 days before the camp was liberated.