In 1940, Lucie was amongst the first to join the
French Resistance. , baby Elizabeth Aubrac and Lucie Aubrac, 1946 In 1944,
Charles de Gaulle established a consultative assembly, which Lucie joined as a resistance representative, making her the first woman to sit on a French parliamentary assembly. In 1984, Lucie published a semi-fictional version of her wartime diaries, the English translation of which is known as
Outwitting the Gestapo. The 1997 film
Lucie Aubrac, which stars
Carole Bouquet as Lucie, is about her efforts to rescue her husband. She herself endorsed the film. In April 1997,
Jacques Vergès produced the "Barbie testament", which he claimed
Klaus Barbie had given him ten years earlier, that purported to show the Aubracs had tipped off Barbie regarding Moulin. Vergès' "Barbie testament" was timed for the publication of the book
Aubrac Lyon 1943 by Gérard Chauvy, which was meant to prove the Aubracs were the ones who informed Barbie about the fateful meeting at Caluire where Moulin was arrested in 1943. On 2 April 1998, following a civil suit launched by the Aubracs, a Paris court fined Chauvy and his publisher Albin Michel for "public defamation". In 1998, the French historian Jacques Baynac, in his book ''Les Secrets de l'affaire Jean Moulin'', claimed Moulin was planning to break with de Gaulle to recognize
General Giraud, which led the Gaullists to tip off Barbie before this could happen. Twenty leading resistance survivors published a letter protesting against the accusations against the Aubracs, who asked to appear before a panel of leading
French historians. Lucie had three children with Raymond.
François Hollande said in a statement: "In our darkest times, [Raymond] was, with Lucie Aubrac, among the righteous, who found, in themselves and in the universal values of our Republic, the strength to resist Nazi barbarism". Lucie's ashes are beside Raymond's in the family tomb in the cemetery in the
Burgundian village of
Salornay-sur-Guye. ==References==