Gilles Mendel

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690 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 4 Feb

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You know, and that girl happened to be in the resistance.

And the next day, you know, he wanted somebody to date her that she took him one day and he said, OK, come over.

We have something.

We're going to go and bomb a bridge.

And he was suddenly in a car with a grenade between his legs going, you know, to bomb the bridge where the Germans were coming.

That's how he started the war.

Then the Germans, you know, you know, obviously after that, the Gestapo, you know, were searching for him.

And he went for one year in the south of France.

He don't need a little farm.

Where he couldn't get out.

He had to hide because, you know, they were looking for him.

So the only time he could get out, maybe it's at nighttime a little bit.

But anyway, so he started to read.

And he read everything he could find, right?

So until that moment, since I know my dad, until his last breath, he would send me first, you know, faxes before the emails.

But he would send me faxes and stories.

And he could never talk to me without poetry.

He would write poetry.

It was always beautiful.

He wouldn't say to me, Gilles, maybe today you should do this, you know, in work or you should, you know, I advise you to do that.

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