Mort pour la France

Mort pour la France (French pronunciation: [mɔʁ puʁ la fʁɑ̃s], lit. 'died for France') is a legal expression in France and an honour awarded to people who died during a conflict, usually in service of the country.

Montaigut-le-Blanc cemetery, tribute to the soldiers killed during the First World War (Puy-de-Dôme, France).

Definition

The term is defined in L.488 to L.492 (bis) of the Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de guerre.^[1] It applied to members of the French military forces who died in action or from an injury or an illness contracted during service during the First and Second World Wars, the Indochina and Algeria Wars, and fighting in Morocco and the Tunisian War of Independence, as well as to civilians killed during these conflicts. Both French citizens and volunteers of other citizenship are eligible to be honored.

Administration

The words "Mort pour la France" are recorded on the death certificate.

The status is awarded by

minister responsible for veterans and victims of war, or
minister responsible for the merchant marine, or
state minister responsible for national defense.

Additionally the diploma «Aux morts de la grande guerre, la patrie reconnaissante» is awarded to the family of

military men of the land or naval forces, who died during the First World War, or
military men of the land, naval or air forces, or members of Free France / Fighting France (Forces françaises libres, FFL / Forces françaises combattantes, FFC), the French Forces of the Interior (Forces françaises de l'Intérieur, FFI), or the French Resistance, who died during the Second World War.

This diploma is awarded by the minister responsible for veterans and war victims.

Copyright

French copyright law gives a special 30 years extension of copyright to creative artists declared "Mort pour la France" over the usual 70 years post mortem (article L. 123-10).^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Writers

List of writers officially declared "Mort pour la France".

Alain-Fournier (1914)
Jacques Arthuys (1943)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1918)
Victor Basch (1944)
Pierre Brossolette (1944)
Benjamin Crémieux (1944)
Louis Codet [fr] (1914)
Jacques Decour (1942)
Jean Desbordes [fr] (1944)
Robert Desnos (1945)
Luc Dietrich (1944)
Benjamin Fondane (1944)
Charles Hainchelin (1944)
Maurice Halbwachs (1945)
Max Jacob (1944)
Régis Messac (1945)
Léon de Montesquiou (1915)
Irène Némirovsky (1942)
Georges Politzer (1942)
Charles Péguy (1914)
Louis Pergaud (1915)
André Ruplinger [fr] (1914)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1944)
Louis-Félix de La Salle de Rochemaure [fr] (1915)
Albert Thierry [fr] (1915)
Georges Valois (1945)
François Vernet [fr] (1945)
Jean de la Ville de Mirmont (1914)
Jean Zay (1944)
Raymond Naves (fr) (1944)

Composers

List of composers officially declared "Mort pour la France".

Resistance fighters

List of resistance fighters officially declared "Mort pour la France"

Others

Others officially declared "Mort pour la France".

References

^ "Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de la guerre - Chapitre Ier : Mention "Mort pour la France"". Codes-et-lois.fr. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
^ "Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle (Livre I - Titre II)". Celog.fr. Archived from the original on 2011-08-29. Retrieved 2014-05-02.
^ "The Little Prince and the Public Domain". 27 December 2012.
^ Angelopoulos, Christina (13 September 2012). "The Myth of European Term Harmonisation: 27 Public Domains for the 27 Member States". International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. Rochester, NY. SSRN 2145862.
^ Rybicka, Katarzyna (23 January 2015). "The Little Prince: almost in the Public Domain". Retrieved 9 January 2016.
^ Broussard, Philippe (2024-09-14). "La photo retrouvée de Raoul Minot, le « photographe fantôme » du Paris occupé" [The photo of Raoul Minot, the “ghost photographer” of occupied Paris, found] (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 2024-09-14.

External links

Attribution rules (French) on www.defense.gouv.fr
Mémoire des Hommes Official web site

[1] "Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de la guerre - Chapitre Ier : Mention "Mort pour la France"". Codes-et-lois.fr. Retrieved 2014-05-02.

[2] "Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle (Livre I - Titre II)". Celog.fr. Archived from the original on 2011-08-29. Retrieved 2014-05-02.

[3] "The Little Prince and the Public Domain". 27 December 2012.

[4] Angelopoulos, Christina (13 September 2012). "The Myth of European Term Harmonisation: 27 Public Domains for the 27 Member States". International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law. Rochester, NY. SSRN 2145862.

[5] Rybicka, Katarzyna (23 January 2015). "The Little Prince: almost in the Public Domain". Retrieved 9 January 2016.

[6] Broussard, Philippe (2024-09-14). "La photo retrouvée de Raoul Minot, le « photographe fantôme » du Paris occupé" [The photo of Raoul Minot, the “ghost photographer” of occupied Paris, found] (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 2024-09-14.

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