Editing French Resistance (section)

==Cultural personalities==
{{Main|List of people involved with the French Resistance}}

The well-known personalities of France—intellectuals, artists, and entertainers—faced a serious dilemma in choosing to emigrate or to remain in France during the country's occupation.  Among those who actively fought in the Resistance, a number died for it—for instance the writer [[Jean Prévost]], the philosopher and mathematician [[Jean Cavaillès]], the historian [[Marc Bloch]], and the philosopher Jean Gosset;{{Sfn|Federini|2006|pp={{Page needed|date=April 2021}}}} among those who survived and went on to reflect on their experience, a particularly visible one was [[Malraux#World War II|André Malraux]].

Among prominent foreign figures who participated in the French Resistance was the political scientist and later [[Iran]]ian Prime Minister [[Shapour Bakhtiar]]. After serving as the prime minister and strong man of the authoritarian Shah regime in Iran, he was forced back into Paris in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. He was assassinated on order of the [[Iran#Islamic Republic (1979–present)|Iranian Islamic Republic]] in 1991.<ref name="German-repression">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/09/obituaries/shahpur-bakhtiar-foe-of-shah-hunted-by-khomeini-s-followers.html |date=9 August 1991 |title=Shahpur Bakhtiar: assassinated on order of the by Khomeini's Followers |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |work=The New York Times |access-date=2017-08-17}}</ref>