Abstract to the book "Saboteur, aristocrat, avenger: The story of Count La Rochefoucauld, who became a nightmare for the Nazis in France" Kiks P.: As a child, Count Robert Jean-Marie de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat and descendant of an ancient family, was not in good health. His happy childhood was spent in the company of numerous brothers and sisters in a fashionable house in the heart of Paris.The beginning of the Nazi occupation found the family of young Robert on vacation in the family castle in the suburbs of the capital, and neither his family nor he himself could then imagine that he would become one of the most daring and effective French saboteurs.After his father's arrest by the Gestapo, he decided to resist the collaborationist Vichy regime and became a living legend of the Resistance: La Rochefoucauld blew up German trains and ammunition factories, dressed up as a nun to hide from the Nazis, twice escaped the death penalty, but continued his desperate struggle until the surrender of Germany in 1945.This book is not only a reliable chronicle of the military exploits of the Count of sabotage, it is the story of a divided, humiliated and disgraced France, which proved able to regain its pride and fight the oppressors. Read more…