Anne Beaumanoir, a French resistance fighter who aided Jewish people fleeing the Nazi occupation of France during World War II and later became a groundbreaking clinical neurologist and epilepsy researcher, died in her home in Quimper on March 4 at the age of 98.
Her medical colleagues at Geneva University confirmed her death but did not cite a cause, according to The Washington Post.
Raymonde Marcelle Anne Beaumanoir was born in 1923 in the town of Créhen in Brittany. Her father Jean, a cyclist from a well-to-do family, ran a bicycle shop before opening a bistro in the next town over. After he married Anne’s mother, Martha Brunet, a milkmaid and the daughter of a farmer, Jean’s relatives cut him off. Together, Jean and Martha ran the restaurant, according to the Post.
Beaumanoir was a medical student at Aix-Marseilles University during the German occupation of France in 1940. At 19, ...
