The French Second World War resistance fighter Daniel Cordier, who parlayed his wartime experiences into a career as a collector and art dealer, has died at age 100. Revered in the country’s cultural ...

A picture of Jean Moulin sat on Daniel Cordier's bookshelf at his home on the French Riviera French Resistance figure Daniel Cordier - who has died at the age of 100 - was one of the last remaining ...

The course of Daniel Cordier’s life changed for ever a few weeks before his 22nd birthday. Parachuted into France in July 1942, he had been sent by the Gaullist Free French in London to act as a radio ...

Aged 19 and about to join the French army to fight the Nazi invaders, Daniel Cordier heard on the radio in June 1940 that France’s military head of state, Marshal Philippe Pétain, had capitulated to ...

Cordier was one of only two remaining Compagnons de la Libération, an honour awarded by France's Charles de Gaulle, to those who risked their lives liberating France from Nazi occupation. President ...

The early life of Daniel Cordier reads like something out of a John le Carré thriller: soldier, spy, resistance hero, art dealer. After parachuting into Nazi-occupied France in 1942 aged 22 on the ...

When Daniel Cordier was parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to meet Resistance leader Jean Moulin he had no idea he would become Moulin's closest companion. Cordier was sent over in July 1942 on the ...

French Resistance figure Daniel Cordier - who has died at the age of 100 - was one of the last remaining heroes decorated by Charles de Gaulle for their role in fighting the Nazi occupation. His death ...

When Daniel Cordier was parachuted into Nazi-occupied France to meet Resistance leader Jean Moulin he had no idea he would become Moulin's closest companion. Cordier was sent over in July 1942 on the ...

A picture of Jean Moulin sat on Daniel Cordier's bookshelf at his home on the French Riviera French Resistance figure Daniel Cordier - who has died at the age of 100 - was one of the last remaining ...