On 5 January 1942, a French police inspector named Rondeaux, stationed in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, caught sight of a man he believed to be a wanted member of the French Resistance. Andre Pican was a teacher, and he was indeed the head of the Front National of the Resistance in the Seine-Inferieure; there was a price of 30,000 francs on his head for the derailing of a train carrying requisitioned goods and war materiel to Germany.
- From A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead
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