Mort pour la France

Mort pour la France is a term used in the French legal system for people who died during a conflict, usually in service of the country.

Montaigut-le-Blanc cemetery, tribute to the soldier killed during the First World War (Puy-de-Dôme, France).

Definition

The term is defined in L.488 to L.492 (bis) of the Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de guerre.^[1] It encompasses members of the French military forces who died in action or from an injury or an illness contracted during the service during the First and Second World Wars, the Indochina and Algeria Wars, and fighting in Morocco and the Tunisian War of Independence, and to French civil casualties killed during these conflicts.

Copyright

French copyright law gives a special 30 years extension of copyright to creative artists declared "Mort pour la France" over the usual 70 years post mortem (article L. 123-10).^[2]

Writers

List of writers officially declared "Mort pour la France".

• Alain-Fournier (1914)
• Jacques Arthuys (1943)
• Guillaume Apollinaire (1918)
• Victor Basch (1944)
• Pierre Brossolette (1944)
• Benjamin Crémieux (1944)
• Louis Codet (1914)
• Jacques Decour (1942)
• Jean Desbordes (1944)
• Robert Desnos (1945)
• Luc Dietrich (1944)
• Benjamin Fondane (1944)
• Maurice Halbwachs (1945)
• Max Jacob (1944)
• Régis Messac (1945)
• Léon de Montesquiou (1915)
• Irène Némirovsky (1942)
• Georges Politzer (1942)
• Charles Péguy (1914)
• Louis Pergaud (1915)
• André Ruplinger (1914)
• Antoine de Saint Exupéry (1944)
• Louis de la Salle (1915)
• Albert Thierry (1915)
• Georges Valois (1945)
• François Vernet (1945)
• Jean de la Ville de Mirmont (1914)
• Jean Zay (1944)

Composers

List of composers officially declared "Mort pour la France".

• Jehan Alain (1940)
• Joseph Boulnois (1918)
• Émile Goué (1946)
• Fernand Halphen (1917)
• Maurice Jaubert (1940)
• René Vierne (1918)

References

External links

• Attribution rules (French) on www.defense.gouv.fr
• Mémoire des Hommes Official web site