Victor Dillard

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Victor Dillard (1897–1945) was a French Jesuit and a hero of the French Resistance during World War II. He attempted to organize the French compulsory workers deported to Germany, but was arrested and died in Dachau.[1]

Victor Dillard came from a bourgeois family from Blois, to a family of ten children, including Robert Dillard (1889-1968, polytechnician, student at the naval school, future rear admiral), Pierre Dillars (1891-1915, died for France, studied at the naval school like his brother). Another of his brothers, Étienne Dillard, is the father of the singer Françoise Hardy.[2]

On December 13, 2025, he was beatified by Pope Leo XIV at Notre-Dame de Paris as one of the 50 French Martyrs of World War II, in which he was declared Blessed.

Works

  • Victor Dillard, Lettres du prisonnier inconnu, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Le monde ouvrier, 1941
  • Victor Dillard, Suprêmes témoignages, Paris, Spes, coll. « Action populaire », 1945

References

  1. 1.pcolleu (2014-09-11). "Victor Dillard". Fondation Victor Dillard (in French). Retrieved 2025-04-20.
  2. 2.Quinonero, Frédéric (2017-04-19). Françoise Hardy, un long chant d'amour (in French). L'Archipel. ISBN 978-2-8098-2226-7.