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{{Short description|French politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = Edmond Michelet
| office        = [[Ministry of Justice (France)|French Minister of Justice]]
| term_start    = 8 January 1959
| term_end      = 24 August 1961
| president     = [[Charles de Gaulle]]
| primeminister = [[Michel Debré]]
| predecessor   = Michel Debré
| successor     = [[Bernard Chenot]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1899|10|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place   = [[Paris]], [[France]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1970|10|9|1899|10|8|df=yes}}
| death_place   = [[Brive-la-Gaillarde]], France
| nationality   = [[France|French]]
| image = Edmond Michelet em visita ao Brasil (1960).tif
}}
{{Righteous Among the Nations}}

'''Edmond Michelet''' ({{IPA|fr|ɛdmɔ̃ miʃlɛ}}; 8 October 1899 – 9 October 1970) was a French politician. He is the father of the writer Claude Michelet.<ref>Serge Besanger, ''Les indomptables'', Paris, Éditions Nouvelle Cité, 2020, {{p.|43}}.</ref>

On 17 June 1940, he distributed tracts calling to continue the war in all [[Brive-la-Gaillarde]]'s mailboxes. It is considered to be the first act of resistance of World War II in [[France]], one day before [[Charles de Gaulle]]'s [[Appeal of 18 June]].

He helped many victims of the Nazis in occupied France, including Catholic philosopher [[Dietrich von Hildebrand]]. In 1943 he was arrested and incarcerated at the [[Dachau concentration camp]] where he assisted other prisoners during a [[typhus]] epidemic and was infected himself. He wore the armband No. 52579<ref>Serge Besanger, ''Les indomptables'', Paris, Éditions Nouvelle Cité, 2020, {{p.|131}}.</ref> When Dachau was liberated he was still aiding the sick and was the last to leave, on 26 May 1945.<ref>Serge Besanger, ''Les indomptables'', Paris, Éditions Nouvelle Cité, 2020, {{p.|236}}.</ref> (While a prisoner, he was helped by abbé [[Franz Stock]]). He was designated a [[righteous among the nations]] in 1995. 

He was elected to the French Parliament on 21 October 1945.<ref>Serge Besanger, ''Les indomptables'', Paris, Éditions Nouvelle Cité, 2020, {{p.|252}}.</ref>      
He was made minister of the Army by [[Charles de Gaulle]] in 1946.

He served as [[Minister of Justice (France)|Minister of Justice]] from 1959 to 1961. In 1963 he founded the [[France-Algeria Association]] to encourage cooperation between France and the newly independent [[Algeria]].

Michelet was the main collaborator of [[Abraham Vereide]], the leader of the [[Family (political organisation)|Family]] fundamentalist organisation, based in the United States.<ref name=Bakchich>Doug Ireland, [https://archive.today/20080425012254/http://www.bakchich.info/article3342.html Hillary, l'Amérique, et l'intégrisme chrétien], ''[[Bakchich]]'', 13 April 2008 (account of [[Jeff Sharlet (writer)|Jeff Sharlet]], ''The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power'', HarperCollins, 2008) {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading ==
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*Edmond Michelet.''Rue de La Liberté''. ''Dachau 1943–1945''. Seuil: Paris, 1955, 1983.
*Alice von Hildebrand. ''The Soul of A Lion''. ''A Biography''. Ignatius Press, 2000, {{ISBN|0-89870-801-X}}
*Serge Besanger. ''Les Indomptables''. ''Edmond et Marie Michelet''. Nouvelle Cité, 2020, {{ISBN|978-2-37582-108-4}}

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive film clip|id=gov.archives.arc.95924|description="Longines Chronoscope with Edmon (SIC) Michelet"}}
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