Rue Félix Pijeaud

Charles Félix Pijeaud, born on 12 December 1904 in Sanary-sur-Mer in the Var, died on 6 January 1942 in Alexandria, Egypt, was a French lieutenant-colonel of the Air Force during the Second World War. The first senior air force officer to join General de Gaulle, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Free French Air Force, which he organized. He set up the first Free French fighter and bomber groups. He then commanded the Lorraine bombing group, was seriously wounded and taken prisoner after falling from a parachute, and escaped but died of his wounds. He was posthumously made a Companion of the Liberation. His wife, Colette Pijeaud, also a member of the Resistance, died in deportation.