Fernand Baptistin Pauriol (13 September 1913 in Mallemort – 12 August 1944 in Fresnes) was a French communist, journalist and resistance fighter with the French Communist Party (PCF) during World War II.[1][2] As a young man, Pauriol trained and worked as a sailor, later specialising in wireless telegraphy. Under the influence of his father, he became interested in communist politics and that led him to join the PCF. In the later interwar period, he swapped his maritime career for a career working underground in the PCF. When the war started, his skills in building radio transmitters enabled him to become the director of communications for PCF on 2 March 1942 when he replaced Charly Villard and used the alias "Duval". He was eventually arrested by the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle and shot.
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