Monument Résistance et Déportation
The Monument Résistance et Déportation stands in central Grasse, honouring local Resistance martyrs and people deported during the Second World War. Built in 1983, it presents walls, stone, sculpture and marble.
A ruined low wall evokes bombing, while a stone wall carries thirty-four names from the Grasse area. A barred opening shows a prisoner gripping the bars. Green schist from the Roya valley forms a trapezoidal sculpture representing the macabre dance of deportation. A shaved deportee raises one clenched fist above the stele. A marble cushion bears General de Gaulle’s appeal of 18 June 1940, framed in French colours.
At the stele’s lower left, the Occitan words “lei jamai oblidar” mean “never forget them”. The memorial replaced a 1948 concrete block after roadworks and later gained the appeal’s text. Jean Adrien Félix Autran appears among the names. Born in Magagnosc in 1901, he joined the Resistance in 1942 before his deportation and execution in 1944.
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