Henri Tanguy was born on 12 June 1908 in
Morlaix,
Brittany to a family of a sailor. After five days of fighting, German General
Dietrich von Choltitz notified Colonel Rol that he was ready to negotiate. Alongside Free French general
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Tanguy accepted and signed the act of surrender on 25 August 1944. In 2004 he was commemorated at
Place Denfert-Rochereau, in Paris, with a plaque renaming a part of the place Avenue du Colonel-Henri-Rol-Tanguy, and the
metro station there was sub-titled
Colonel Rol-Tanguy. ==References==