Editing French Resistance (section)

== Terminology ==
[[Charles de Gaulle]] spoke of "French resistance" in his [[Appeal of 18 June|broadcast on 18 June 1940]].<ref>[https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Appel_du_18_Juin Appel du 18 Juin] – "Quoi qu'il arrive, la flamme de la résistance française ne doit pas s'éteindre et ne s'éteindra pas."</ref> English-language use of the phrase "the Resistance" in reference to French anti-Axis activity dates back to at least 1944.<ref>{{cite OED | resistance}}</ref> Boris Kovalyov has stated that the Resistance movement in France and its name originated among [[White émigré|White Movement Russian émigrés]].<ref>[http://agenda-u.org/news/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC-%D0%B2-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%B2-1941-1945-%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B Профессор Ковалев: Коллаборационизм в России в 1941–1945 годы] 27 June 2012 – "Нельзя забывать, что в той же самой Франции движение Сопротивления начинается из среды русской иммиграции, а не из среды этнических французов.– Борис Вильде, выходец из Эстонии, например, придумал сам термин «Сопротивление»." [One should not forget that in France itself the Resistance movement began amongst the circle of the Russian immigration, and not from amongst ethnic French circles. – [[Boris Vildé]], an arrival from Estonia, for example, himself invented the term 'Resistance'.]</ref> The Russian [[Boris Vildé]] co-founded one of the first anti-occupation groups, and in December 1940 started co-publishing the underground newspaper ''Résistance''.