Square Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont

You are standing in a space that honors one of the most significant figures of the French Resistance. Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont was a communist activist who rose to the very top of the resistance hierarchy during the Second World War. On August twenty-fifth, nineteen forty-four, he stood alongside General Leclerc and Henri Rol-Tanguy to officially receive the surrender of the German military governor of Paris. He took the pseudonym Valrimont from a character in a fairy tale by Perrault while operating in the shadows to organize the liberation of the city.