At the National Assembly, between “Anne” the Gaullist and “Mimi” the Communist, the teachings of the previous from a rare friendship | EUROtoday

Their names have been Anne and “Mimi”. One was a Gaullist, the opposite a communist. Anne Braun reigned over the UNR, UDR and RPR deputies within the National Assembly, as basic secretary of the Gaullist group, till 1993. “Mimi” Pulvermacher, born Hermine Landini, was the pillar of the French Communist Party group (PCF), from 1965 to 1998. In the Eighties, a easy hall separated their two workplaces, which neglected the principle courtyard of the Palais- bourbon. The Assembly providers requested them in the event that they agreed to share the identical photocopier, they stated sure. Before assembly within the morning on the refreshment bar for a espresso, to the good shock of the deputies, or within the night in a bistro close to the Le Bon Marché division retailer, a long way from the Assembly.

No one actually understood what linked these two elegant and rigorous ladies, although they belonged to 2 antagonistic teams, even when within the post-war years, Gaullists and Communists shared a standard language, cast within the Resistance. But later, the opposition was head-on between the 2 teams. “I call “Mimi””exclaimed Anne, when it got here to resolving an issue in session or in committee.

Discreet, their collaborators by no means requested questions on this distinctive friendship. In the Assembly, these near Anne Braun famous that she by no means went to the funerals, even of former deputies whom she cherished. Coming from a Jewish household from Poland and Russia, she had seen her two mother and father and her 10-year-old little sister depart for Auschwitz, after a roundup in Clermont-Ferrand. They did not come again. Hermine Landini was born right into a household of Italian anti-fascists, immigrants to the Var. His father and brothers, resistance fighters, have been arrested and tortured. At 15, “Mimi” was herself a liaison agent, transporting messages and weapons, or main resistance fighters into the maquis. The household of her husband, Chaim Léon Pulvermacher, a Polish Jew, communist activist and pacifist, was fully decimated at Auschwitz. “Anne and I had the same love of France”summed up “Mimi”.

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