Henri Louis Honoré
(Honoré)
d'Estienne d'Orves
formerly Estienne d'Orves
Born in Verrières-le-Buisson, Seine-et-Oise, France
Ancestors 
Son of Marc Joseph Charles Marie (Estienne d'Orves) d'Estienne d'Orves
and Caroline Julie Marie Elisabeth Lévêque de Vilmorin
Brother of
Louise Julie Marie Catherine (Estienne d'Orves) d'Estienne d'Orves, François Louis Marie (Estienne d'Orves) d'Estienne d'Orves, Jean Bienvenu Marie (Estienne d'Orves) d'Estienne d'Orves and Louis Marie Laurent (Estienne d'Orves) d'Estienne d'Orves
Husband of
Elianne Marie Thérèse Simone (Lorgeril) de Lorgeril
— married
29 Oct 1929 in Pleugueneuc, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
Father of
Marguerite Marie Monique Yvonne (Estienne d'Orves) d'Estienne d'Orves and Henri Philippe (Estienne d'Orves) Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves
Died
at age 40
in Suresnes, Seine, France
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Biography
Honoré (Estienne d'Orves) d'Estienne d'Orves is Notable.
Born in an old aristocratic family from Provence[1], Honoré graduated from two prestigious military high schools, Polytechnique and Navale.
He married Éliane de Lorgeril the 29th of October 1929 in Pleugueneuc (Ille-et-Vilaine).
High officer in the French Navy at the beginning of WWII, he refused the defeat of France, and joined de Gaulle in London in September 1940. He was offered and accepted the direction of the Naval Forces of Free France.
In December 1940, he crossed the channel to organize a resistance network called Nemrod, which gathered precious informations on the defensive German forces.
Betrayed by a member of his network, he was arrested by the German forces the 22nd of January 1941, and sentenced to death after a trial in May of the same year. He was executed with two of his fellow resistants, the 29th of August, on Mont Valérien, the place of many similar executions, and now a Memorial of French Resistance.[2]
Né le 5 juin 1901 à Verrières-le-Buisson.[3]
Polytechnicien, (promotion 1921), il fait carrière comme officier dans la Marine Nationale.
Il épouse le 29 octobre 1929 à Pleugueneuc (Ille-et-Vilaine), Éliane de Lorgeril[4], dont il aura cinq enfants, Marguerite (1930), Monique (1931), Rose (1934), Marc (1936) et Philippe (1940).[5]
Il rejoint la Résistance à Londres dès septembre 1940. Rentré en France clandestinement en décembre 1940 il organise le réseau de résistance Nemrod, qui recueillera de précieuses informations sur les capacités de défense côtières et les forces navales allemandes.
Trahi par un membre du réseau, il est arrêté en Janvier 1941, condamné à mort en mai, et fusillé au Mont Valérien le 29 août 1941, avec deux de ses compagnons d'armes.
Dans une lettre à sa soeur la veille de sa mort, il écrit : Que personne ne songe à me venger. Je ne désire que la paix dans la grandeur retrouvée de la France. Dites bien à tous que je meurs pour elle, pour sa liberté entière, et que j’espère que mon sacrifice lui servira. Je vous embrasse tous avec mon infinie tendresse.[5]
Mort pour la France, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur[6], Compagnon de la Libération[7].
Sources
- ↑ Wikipédia Famille d'Estienne
- ↑ Le mémorial du Mont Valérien
- ↑ AD 91, Verrières-le-Buisson, tables décennales, vue 188
- ↑ Acte de naissance d'Éliane de Lorgeril, mention marginale
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://www.verrieres-le-buisson.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/livret_expo_HEO_final_page_low.pdf
- ↑ Base LEONORE, Henri Louis Honoré ESTIENNE D'ORVES
- ↑ Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, biographie sur le site de l'Ordre National de la Libération
- Wikipedia : Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves
- Memorial: Find a Grave (no image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #37728204 (accessed 4 December 2023)
Memorial page for Honore D' Estiennes D'Orves (1901-1941), citing Verrieres, Verrieres-le-Buisson, Departement de l'Essonne, Île-de-France, France; Maintained by: Find a Grave.
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Abby
1) There is no concept of "middle name" in French. People are given one or more first name, and are generally known only by one of those, which is not necessarily the first one of the list in the birth record. In this case, Honoré is the first name he is generally called. 2) I write bios in French when I consider that people interested in the profile would be mostly French people. But this very profile indeed deserved a bilingual bio (now done) 3) Right, corrected.
Five children by via Éliane de LORGERIL: Marc, d. 2016 in Polynesia; Monique (dsp?); Marguerite CARVALLO; Rose de BEAUFORT; and Henri-Philippe m. MONTRICHARD.
Vive la France!
Three questions:
1) Isn't his name Henri and Honore is a middle name?
2) Is it OK for the Bio text to be in French? I'm sincerely asking, not complaining. I thought this was an all-English site.
3) The death location is wrong, isn't it? Pretty sure the Nazis executed him at Fort Mont-Valérien (Suresnes), Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France... not Paris.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Mont-Val%C3%A9rien