Lucie Aubrac is a teacher of French history and one of the best known and loved members of the French Resistance. Lucie was born Lucie Samuel on 28th June 1912, of Catholic and peasant background; her father owned a vineyard.

In 1939 when World War II broke out and France was divided, Lucie married Raymond Aubrac, a Jewish engineer. Lucie joined the Liberation-sud resistance group in Lyons formed by her husband. Later she followed him to work with another resistance group, headed by Charles Delestraint. In 1941 they joined forces with Emmanuel d'Astier to run the underground newspaper, Libération.

One 21st June 1943, the Gestapo captured Raymond alongside Jean Moulin and they was taken to Montluc prison. In 1943, while pregnant, Lucie planned and took part in raids to free comrades, including Raymond and three other resistance members who had been sentenced to death by the Nazis. Since their cover being betrayed both Aubracs and their first child escaped to London.

After the war, Lucie served on the consultative committees of the provisional government of Charles de Gaulle. Her degree to teach history was restored and she eventually returned to teaching and is now a champion of human rights.

In 1984 Lucie Aubrac published her memoirs, Ils partiront dans l'ivresse (translated in English as Outwitting the Gestapo), which was followed by the compelling movie Lucie Aubrac. The film is loosely based on the events around the escape of her husband and Lucie’s extraordinary part in it.

Lucie died on 14 March 2007.