PASSINGS

Henri Frenay; French Resistance Leader, Author

Henri Frenay, 82, a leader of the French Resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II. During the occupation, Frenay founded the Resistance group Combat and the underground newspaper of the same name. Frenay was a career officer in the French army and a captain when the German army invaded France in May, 1940. He was captured the next month but escaped and returned to Lyon where he began organizing the Resistance. He participated in the French government in exile in Algiers and was named commissioner for prisoners and deportees. After the liberation, Frenay served in the French provisional governments of 1944 and 1945 as minister for prisoners, deportees and refugees. He was promoted to colonel in 1945 and, after the war, managed a toy company. Frenay was author of “The Night Will End,� “Volunteers of the Night� and “The Jean Moulin Riddle.� In Paris, his family announced Monday without revealing a date or cause of death.