Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

Known For: Acting

Gender: Female

Date of Birth: November 3, 1912

Day of Death: December 11, 1996 (84 years old)

Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (née Vogel) was a French Resistance member in World War II as well as a photojournalist, deported to Auschwitz in 1943. She survived the war and became a Communist politician, elected to Parliament under the Fourth and Fifth Republic.