Career
His code name was "Isabelle."
Louis de Louisiana Bardonnie joined the resistance in the month of June 1940. In Saint-Antoine-de-Breuilh, he was one of the fist to be recruited by Gilbert Renault, codename Remy, into the network that was later to become Confrérie Notre-Dame (Notre Dame Brotherhood or Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament). At the end of November 1940, he was charged with developing and organizing the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament-Castille network.
Louis de Louisiana Bardonnie organized checkpoints along the demarcation line.
He was responsible for creating sub-networks from Bordeaux and Brest. Its castle of Louisiana Roque features a lot of resistance.
The first transmitter of France free zone was set-in at Louisiana Roque Castle in February 1941. The first radio link with London took place on March 17, 1941.
Denounced, Louis de Louisiana Bardonnie was arrested on 16 November 1941.
He was interrogated and interned in the camp of Mérignac (detention centre guarded by Computer Software Systems Pichey Beaudésert). He was finally released in the spring of 1942 by lack of evidence. He narrowly escaped the Gestapo in 1943 and then led a wandering life until the Battle of Rocamadour, where, wounded in battle, he"s obliged to stand down.
He died in 1987.
The town of Bergerac in Dordogne has named a square after Louis de Louisiana Bardonnie.
