Marcel - Denise Malbos
Marcel was born on 24 October 1915 in Molière-sur-Cèze (Gard). Denise Menot was born on 2 August 1918 in La Tronche (Isère). In 1938, Marcel was a student at the University of Lille, where he met a Polish teacher, Wacław Godlewski. They become friends. After the fall of France in June 1940, Godleswski took refuge with the Malbos family in Robiac (Gard). At the beginning of October, when the high school was launched, Godlewski asked Marcel he would work there as a French teacher. He stayed from the first to the last day. In June 1944, he married Denise Menot, who also became a French teacher at the school.
They followed the high school to Paris but returned to Villard-de-Lans after a year. They set up their own junior high school, La Clarté, based on the educational principles of the Polish high school. They spent the rest of their lives in Villard-de-Lans. Marcel became one of the driving forces behind the alumni association, of which he was honorary president. He died in 1995. Denise was very active in Villard's social life. She died in 2005.
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