Liliane Marchais, activist
Liliane Marchais –a French communist activist – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 9 April 2020.
Born in Malakoff on 24 August 1935, Marchais' father was a toolmaker, and her mother was unemployed. In 1961, she married Maurice Garcia, a member of the French Communist Party, with whom she had a daughter, Annie. The couple divorced, and Liliane married Georges Marchais in 1977. They had a son, Olivier. The family lived in Champigny-sur-Marne, a suburb southeast of Paris.
The holder of a Certificat d'études primaires and a Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle, Marchais worked as a cable worker for Compagne générale de la télégraphie sans fil in her hometown of Malakoff. At age 15, she joined the...