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Raymond Triboulet was a politician and a Gaullist Resistance fighter from Calvados. Raymond Triboulet was the first sub-prefect of the liberated France, appointed it Bayeux on 15 June 1944. Post war, Triboulet served several times as a minister under General de Gaulle.
Born on 3 October 1906 in Paris, Raymond Triboulet began studying law before becoming a journalist and farm manager The farm was in Calvados, on the land of a vast farm located in the Bessin in Sainte-Croix-Grand-Tonne.
As infantry lieutenant, he was mobilised in 1939. He was captured and taken as a prisoner of war by German forces on 18 June 1940 in Saint-Lô (Manche). He was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany. Due to him suffering from tuberculosis and being the father of five children he was released.
Back in France on 13 March 1941, Triboulet joined the ranks of the Resistance in Paris and then in Normandy by participating in the movement ‘Ceux de la Résistance’ (CDLR). He was in charge of informing the Allies about the enemy defences between Caen and Bayeux and, at the same time preparing administrative structures for when France was liberated.
At the beginning of 1944 he became secretary of the Calvados Liberation Committee. Following the visit of General de Gaulle to Bayeux on 14 June 1944, Triboulet learned on 15 June by the Commissioner of the Republic of the Gouvernement provisoire de la République française (Provisional Government of the French Republic), François Coulet, that he was to be appointed first sub-prefect of the district of Bayeux.
After the war, Triboulet entered politics. In Bayeux, he set up a D-Day Committee, which he chaired for 54 years until 1999. It is thanks to him that the first D-Day Landing museum opened in Arromanches in 1954, as well as many memorials and organisation of D-Day commemorations.
Triboulet became a Gaullist deputy after the war from 1946 until 1973. He introduced a bill establishing 6 June as a date of national commemoration.
He went on to be a three times minister of General de Gaulle from 1959 to 1966. He served in the governments of Edgar Faure and then Georges Pompidou and was ennobled by Queen Elizabeth II.
Triboulet remains one of the most famous and influential Norman personalities of the post-war period. He died in Sèvres on 26 May 2006 at the age of 100. He is buried at the Sèvres cemetery.