Henri Yrissou Commander Légion d'H
The name Henri Yrissou is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Passy cemetery, Paris, Paris, France.
There are 0 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Henri Yrissou was buried in 2009. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Henri Yrissou age is given as 100.
Henri Yrissou birth is given as 1909.
Henri Yrissou is listed on the GPR grave numbered 272787.
Henri Yrissou is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Henri Yrissou has the record number 584646 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 19 December 2012
There are images available for the monument listing Henri Yrissou (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Henri Yrissou record:
In 1939 Yrissou was attached to the office of the Prime Minister; Paul Reynaud; ; and then briefly served the Vichy régime. He then chose to join the French army. He joined the Free French Forces in London via North Africa. He was a member of the French Parliament 1958-1962 and Mayor of Gaillac in south-west France 1959-1977; and worked closely with the French minister Antoine Pinay; who held the highest ministerial positions in the 1950s.