RENE BONPAIN
Born in a great family from Flanders in Dunkirk in 1908, René Bonpain is nominated for being vicar in Rosendaël in 1932. In 1940, he organizes a service of routing of the letters towards free France, North Africa and England. Twice per week, by hiding them in trucks at double bottom transporting coal normally, hundreds of people can so join the French forces. Unfortunately, the Bonpain abbot is stopped in November 1942. Imprisoned in the prison of Loos, condemned to death, he is carried out on March 30 in the ditches of the fort of Bondues. To meet other famous characters. |