Item 03: Free French Movement minute book, 6 June 1941 - 21 June 1944

MLMSS 2586 (Y 4919)

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6 June 1941 - 21 June 1944

1091489

FOLDER 5
Minutes of the first meeting of Free Frenchmen in Australia to constitute the Free French Movement in Australia, 6th March 1941
Minutes are written in English until 3rd September 1943 and then laterwritten in French.

Also includes letters, ballot and circular, November 1943 – 23rd June 1944. In particular the dissolution of the Free French Movement in Australia.
In June 1944, the Free French Movement in Australia was dissolved and replaced by The French Australian Association launched at a public meeting on the 8th of June 1944. In November 1943, André Brenac wanted the Free French Movement to be dissolute because he thought that it wasn't acting according to its statutes nor to the instructions of the French Comitee of National Liberation. However, he wanted the Free French Forces Appeal to carry on working. (Letter from André Brenac to L. Duplatre, 10 November 1943)