{"id":"marie-claude-vaillant-couturier","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/marie-claude-vaillant-couturier","language":"en","name":"Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier","name_en":"Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier","name_ne":null,"description":"French communist politician, photojournalist and member of the French Resistance (1912-1996)","headline":"French communist politician, photojournalist and member of the French Resistance (1912-1996)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier was a French Resistance member in World War II as well as a photojournalist, deported to Auschwitz in 1943. 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member of the French National Assembly (1967–1968); member of the French National Assembly (1963–1967); Member of parliament for the Seine (1956–1958); Member of parliament for the Seine (1951–1955)."},{"q":"Where did Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier study?","a":"Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier was educated at Collège Sévigné."}],"related":[{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Mohamed Morsi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-morsi"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Abdul Rahman Arif","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-rahman-arif"},{"name":"Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-najib-ar-ruba-i"},{"name":"Claude Goasguen","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/claude-goasguen"},{"name":"Victor Sévère","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/victor-severe"},{"name":"Maurice Druon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/maurice-druon"},{"name":"Édouard Herriot","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/edouard-herriot"},{"name":"Élisabeth Guigou","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/elisabeth-guigou"},{"name":"Pierre Frogier","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pierre-frogier"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/marie-claude-vaillant-couturier-617d2f45bb.jpg","width":500,"height":686,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Magazine Regards","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie-Claude_Vaillant-Couturier.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Claude_Vaillant-Couturier","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q274267","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274267","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier.jpg by Magazine Regards (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie-Claude_Vaillant-Couturier.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier.jpg — Magazine Regards, Public domain.","cite":"\"Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/marie-claude-vaillant-couturier. Retrieved 9 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-09","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/marie-claude-vaillant-couturier","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/marie-claude-vaillant-couturier","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/marie-claude-vaillant-couturier?lang=ne"}}