Mémoires de guerre

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa Cellunaf reserved for veterans of Free France and members of the resistance and combatant associations of the 1939–1945 war.
Pleasant set.
Fine autograph inscription signed by General De Gaulle: "A madame Creteau en souvenir de la grande épreuve, en mémoire de son brave fils qui fut 'des miens'. Respectueusement. C. De Gaulle. 16.2.55".

Born in Levallois-Perret in 1922, Jacques Jean Marie Créteau joined the Free French Forces in 1940 at the age of 18. According to the list compiled by Ecochard, he initially joined General de Gaulle in London. He then served in the Provisional Consultative Assembly, which sat in Algiers from November 1943 to July 1944, under the command of De Gaulle, who presided over this legislative body composed of representatives of the opposition to Vichy: resistance movements, political parties, and territories committed to the Allied cause. Créteau received a diploma of gratitude from General de Gaulle, awarded to members of the Free French Forces, and appears on the list of recipients published in the Revue de la France Libre in March 1948. He died young in 1953, and his mother Geneviève received this final token of gratitude for “one of his own” from the leader of the Free French Forces.